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SULLY
May 6, 2017  | By David Bianculli

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Tom Hanks stars as, and does a very good job portraying, pilot Chesley Sullenberger in this 2016 movie, directed by Clint Eastwood. The film does a superb job recreating Sully’s miracle landing of his incapacitated passenger airline on the Hudson River, and even generates unexpected tension by dramatizing his after-the-fact nightmare of the event, and taking us on investigative computer simulations of the crash – but the real, and potent, story here is of the airline company scrambling, after the fact, to place blame and deflect responsibility. Sound familiar? And Sully didn’t even give any of his passengers a mandatory reassignment…

 
 
 
 
 
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