It’s once again time for a BOATS (Based On A True Story) movie with actual boats in it, namely, Not Without Hope (now streaming on Paramount+). Joe Carnahan (The Rip) directs this gritty thriller adapting Nick Schuyler’s memoir, which details how he survived a boating mishap that took the lives of three of his friends. You may be familiar with the news headlines from 2009: Schulyer, his best pal Will Bleakley and two NFL players, Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, were fishing in a small vessel 50 miles off the coast of Florida when the boat capsized, and the men were hammered by a storm; Schuyler was found nearly two days later, clinging to the underside of the flipped vessel. As ever, it’s the type of story that naturally translates to the movies.
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