When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them. Once the boys are found alive ten days later, the only way out is an impossible five-hour dive-swim that only expert cave divers could survive. In Ireland, airplane factory electrician and recreational cave diver Jim Warny gets the call: "How soon... (Full plot summary below)
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When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them. Once the boys are found alive ten days later, the only way out is an impossible five-hour dive-swim that only expert cave divers could survive. In Ireland, airplane factory electrician and recreational cave diver Jim Warny gets the call: "How soon can you be here?" Arriving in Thailand, Jim steps off the plane and into the cave - a knife-edge three-day mission is underway. Based on true events, THE CAVE tells the thrilling story of the largest international rescue mission of modern times, from the unique perspective of the men and women facing life-and-death decisions and displaying selfless determination and sacrifice, culminating in a triumphant outcome against all the odds.
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| Film ThreatAndy HowellIt will stick with you long after you leave the theater. It is as moving as it is possible for a film to be. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayFayyad — who directed a team of cinematographers remotely when he was prevented from entering Ghouta himself — films The Cave with a grace and compositional sensitivity all the more impressive for being achieved under the most difficult circumstances. |
| Original-CinKim HughesThe Cave may be the saddest, most infuriating chronicle of the ghastly ravages of war on a country’s most vulnerable citizens —children — ever made. |
| RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloIn a sea of so much tragedy, it’s a marvel to stop and consider each individual’s experience fighting the tide. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattIt delivers something more and better, too: a moving, beautifully humanistic story whose inevitable hardships are laced with real hope and levity. |
| The New York TimesBen KenigsbergEntering theaters at a timely moment, The Cave is a frightening immersion in life under siege in Syria that, as difficult as it often is to watch, can’t come close to replicating how harrowing it must have been to film. |
| The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesFayyad and his cinematographers and editors wield the cameras and shape the scenes in the documentary so beautifully that The Cave is both intensely real and a carefully wrought work of cinema. A kind of counterpart to Last Men, the new film is perhaps more wrenching and even more ambitious in its visuals. |
| VarietyTomris LafflyThis is both an immensely humanist film, and a tough, heartbreaking watch. |
| Slant MagazinePat BrownIts depiction of the perpetual terror of living in a war zone will stick with viewers long after The Cave’s doctors have left Ghouta. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerA subtext of the film is a focus on classical music, as if to ask how humans can be capable of both intense beauty and ruthless inhumanity. |
