Not exact matches
The umpteenth retelling of the 1976 commando mission to free
hostages in Uganda avoids all the audacious
drama of the real -
life events
RECOMMENDED: Full coverage of the Toronto Film Festival Ben Affleck, meanwhile, finds the only happy story to tell about the CIA with Argo, an ultimately breezy spy
drama based on the covert, real -
life 1980 rescue of six of the Iran
hostages.
Jerry Jameson's faith - based, crime
drama and psychological thriller, Captive, starring Kate Mara and David Oyelowo, is based on the real -
life account of the 2005 Atlanta
Hostage Hero, Ashley Smith's book Unlikely Angel.
From a bent nail posing as Chekov's Gun to damning and
life - saving «rockets», Krasinski proves himself a maestro of suspense behind the camera, holding
hostage audiences breathless and on knife's edge from damn near the very first frame, finding room for fine - tuned familial
drama and smuggling in a touching coming - of - age subplot along the way.