Sully (film)
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Sully (also known as Sully: Miracle on the Hudson[6]) is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Todd Komarnicki, based on the 2009 autobiography Highest Duty by Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles. Tom Hanks stars as Sullenberger, with Aaron Eckhart as Skiles, and co-stars Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Autumn Reeser, Holt McCallany, and Jamey Sheridan. The film follows Sullenberger's 2009 emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, in which all 155 passengers and crew survived and the subsequent publicity and investigation.
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Directed by | Clint Eastwood |
Written by | Todd Komarnicki |
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Cinematography | Tom Stern |
Edited by | Blu Murray |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 96 minutes[1][2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $60 million[3][4] |
Box office | $240.8 million[5] |
Sully premiered at the 43rd Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2016, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. on September 9, 2016, in conventional and IMAX theaters.[2] The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $240 million worldwide, but created controversy with its fictionalized portrayal of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) as "prosecutorial and closed-minded." The American Film Institute and National Board of Review both selected it as one of their ten best films of 2016,[7] and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at the 89th Academy Awards.