'Pressure' Review: Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott Star in WWII Drama About the Weather Forecast That Shaped D-Day
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Pete Hammond
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Summary
A review of the film 'Pressure', which tells the story of the tense 72 hours before D-Day in WWII. The film focuses on the conflict between meteorologists and military leadership, particularly General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had to make a life-altering decision about whether to proceed with the Normandy invasion based on weather forecasts. The review compares it to classic D-Day films like Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day, noting that this film explores an overlooked angle of WWII history.
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· 2 pulledIf you have seen Oscar-winning accounts of the June 6, 1944, seaborne invasion in Normandy, known as D-Day, in classic films like Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and 1962's all-star epic The Longest Day, you probably believe you know all you need to know about that fateful day that changed world history. Think again.
Just when it seems there is no angle of WWII unexplored, along comes Pressure, the story of how conflict over forecasting what the weather would be on those beaches in France in order to pull off this complex and risky Allied
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