Thirteen Lives

[Opens July 29 in select theaters and available Aug. 5 on Amazon Prime Video.] After twelve traumatized Thai soccer players (Pasakorn Hoyhon, et al.) and their 25-year-old, guilt-ridden assistant coach (Teeradon ‘James' Supapunpinyo) get trapped in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Northern Thailand in June and July 2018 for 18 grueling, frightening days when the monsoons unexpectedly arrive early in Ron Howard's riveting, factually based, powerful, suspenseful, heart-wrenching, moving, inspirational, 147-minute thriller, skilled cave rescue divers (Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Tom Bateman, Paul Gleeson, Sukollawat Kanarot, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Thira Chutikul, Bernard Sam, Popetorn Soonthornyanakij, et al.) and an Australian anesthesiologist (Joel Edgerton) along with more than 5,000 volunteers from Thailand and seventeen other countries joined forces in a harrowing, dangerous, miraculous, rescue mission to save the Wild Boar team against tremendous odds while the Chiang Rai Province governor (Sahajak 'Poo' Boonthanakit) and the interior minister (Vithaya Pansringarm) lead the complicated operation.
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