He plays Lou Zamperini, an Olympic medallist who survived months at
sea after a plane crash before being held as a POW in Japan.
Not exact matches
Included - a helicopter rescue onboard a tanker in rough Alaskan
seas; a race to reach a victim who fell off a 200 - foot cliff; a rescue endeavor
after a bush -
plane crash a few miles from base.
After a
plane crash at
sea, a Federal Express engineer survives on a remote island for four years in complete isolation.
But the core of the film shows how Zamperini survived at
sea for 47 days
after a
plane crash and then landed in a Japanese POW camp.
But with adulthood came myriad disappointments and heartbreaks: Richie (Luke Wilson) retired from tennis
after a humiliating loss and took to the
seas; Margot's (Gwyneth Paltrow) writing career hit a stall and is now stuck in a passionless marriage to the much older neurologist / writer Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray); and Chas (Ben Stiller), while still successful, has become a paranoid safety freak and overprotective father to his two sons
after his beloved wife was killed in a
plane crash.