The Impossible

MPAA Rating: for intense realistic disaster sequences, including disturbing injury images and brief nudity.

Review coming from Contributor: John Decker (late)

Moral Rating:

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Primary Audience:

Adults Teens

Genre:

Action History Thriller Drama

Length:

1 hr. 54 min.

Year of Release:

2012

USA Release:

December 4, 2012 (festival)
December 21, 2012 (exclusive engagements begin)

Relevant Issues

being caught in a major catastrophe (natural disaster)

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (off-site)

survival / protecting your family

Pain and suffering

Why does God allow innocent people to suffer? Answer

What about the issue of suffering? Doesn’t this prove that there is no God and that we are on our own? Answer

Does God feel our pain? Answer

ORIGIN OF BAD—How did bad things come about? Answer

Did God make the world the way it is now? What kind of world would you create? Answer

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father son relationship

being separated from family

mother son relationship

Thailand (off-site)

“Nothing is more powerful than the human spirit.”

Producer’s synopsis: “A powerful story based on one family's survival of the 2004 tsunami, THE IMPOSSIBLE stars Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor and is directed by J.A. Bayona (THE ORPHANAGE).

Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying roar rises up from the center of the earth. As Maria freezes in fear, a huge wall of black water races across the hotel grounds toward her.

Based on a true story, THE IMPOSSIBLE is the unforgettable account of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives. Both epic and intimate, devastating and uplifting, THE IMPOSSIBLE is a journey to the core of the human heart.”

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