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If you need a documentary to lift your spirits, The Rescue is your best bet in theaters right now. Maybe you remember the news story from June 2018 when 12 members of a Thai youth soccer team and their 25-year-old coach ventured into a cave in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand and found themselves trapped there by an
Oscar-winning 'Free Solo' directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin turn their attention to another incredible story in 'The Rescue.'
The folks in Hollywood are probably wise not to listen to critics. A lot of stuff we like is old, subtitled and about subjects that don't sell toys. I once persuaded an arthouse theater owner to show a movie I loved called "Last Resort," made by an up-and-coming Polish director named Pawel Pawlikowski. While the filmmaker later earned an Oscar nomination for directing "Cold War," nobody went to see "Last Resort."
NPR's A Martínez talks to filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi about the documentary The Rescue — which recounts the 2018 underwater effort to save 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave.
<em>The Rescue </em>follows the 18-day effort to rescue 12 boys and their coach from an underwater cave. Filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin recount the harrowing mission with diver Rick Stanton.