The Impossible


10:30 pm - 12:10 am, Sunday, August 2 on BBC One London (1)

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A British family spends Christmas in Thailand, only to get caught up in the 2004 tsunami. While his mother lies injured in hospital, the eldest son ventures into the ensuing chaos to search for his father and younger brothers, whom he was separated from during the crisis. Drama, with Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland


2012 HD subtitles 16x9 audio-description
General Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

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Naomi Watts (Actor) .. Maria
Ewan McGregor (Actor) .. Henry
Tom Holland (Actor) .. Lucas
Samuel Joslin (Actor) .. Thomas
Oaklee Pendergast (Actor) .. Simon
Marta Etura (Actor) .. Simone
Sonke Mohring (Actor) .. Karl
Geraldine Chaplin (Actor) .. Old woman

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Naomi Watts (Actor) .. Maria
Born: September 28, 1968 in Shoreham, Kent
Best Known For: Playing Betty in Mulholland Drive.
Early-life: Naomi Ellen Watts was born in Shoreham, Kent on September 28, 1968. Her parents divorced when she was four and she moved across South East England with her mother. Naomi's parents reconciled but, two years later, her father died. Following his death, Naomi moved around England and Wales before settling in Sydney, Australia when she was 14, where her mother enrolled her in acting lessons. Naomi wanted to become an actress after watching the film Fame (1980). She auditioned for many TV adverts and got her first film role in For Love Alone (1986). Naomi tried to become a model at 18 and signed to a model agency that sent her to Japan. After failing several auditions, she returned to Sydney and worked in advertising for a department store and later as an assistant fashion editor for the magazine Follow Me. She decided to quit her job and pursue acting after participating in a drama workshop.
Career: While living in Australia, Watts appeared in such films as Flirting (1991), Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) and Gross Misconduct (1993) as well as the soap opera Home and Away. She then moved to America but struggled early on in her career to land work. Watts got a supporting role in Tank Girl (1995) but it flopped at the box office. She then appeared in a number of largely forgotten films and TV programmes before getting her breakthrough in Mulholland Drive (2001). Following this, she landed the lead role in The Ring (2002) and then 21 Grams (2003). Her first comedy was I Heart Huckabees (2004). The next year, she appeared as Ann Darrow in King Kong (2005) and reprised her role as Rachel for The Ring 2 (2005). Watts then went on to appear in The Painted Veil (2006), Funny Games (2007), The International (2009) and The Impossible (2012). She also produced The Painted Veil and Funny Games. More recently, Watts appeared in the second film from the Divergent Series, Insurgent (2015), as well as Demolition (2015), Chuck (2016) and the Netflix drama series Gypsy. She was also executive producer for Gypsy.
Quote: 'If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.'
Trivia: She was Oscar-nominated for best actress for The Impossible and 21 Grams.
Ewan McGregor (Actor) .. Henry
Born: March 31, 1971 in Crieff, near Perth, Scotland
Best Known For: Trainspotting and Star Wars.
Early-life: Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971, in Perth, Scotland, and was raised in nearby Crieff. He's the son of two teachers and the nephew of actor Denis Lawson. His brother is a former RAF pilot. His parents encouraged him to leave school at 16 to do whatever made him happy. Inspired by his uncle, he studied drama for a year at Kirkcaldy in Fife, before joining London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Shortly before graduating, he landed a role in Dennis Potter's 1993 series Lipstick on Your Collar.
Career: Shallow Grave kick-started McGregor's film career in 1994, then Trainspotting made his name on both sides of the Atlantic two years later. He went on to make Brassed Off, A Life Less Ordinary, Little Voice and the three Star Wars prequels. He formed production company Natural Nylon with friends Jonny Lee Miller, Sean Pertwee, Jude Law and Sadie Frost, but that has since disbanded. Other movies include Moulin Rouge!, Black Hawk Down, Young Adam, Big Fish, Deception, Angels & Demons, The Ghost and Mortdecai. The prolific actor always has a number of films in the pipeline, and occasionally tackles theatre work.
Quote: 'Film-making is like a series of problems that need to be solved. And the excitement, the adrenaline that you get from making a small film is that you all have to pull together. I love that.'
Trivia: Away from movies, he is active in several charities, including UNICEF, and has travelled the globe alongside pal Charley Boorman in the Long Way series.
Tom Holland (Actor) .. Lucas
Born: June 01, 1996 in Kingston-upon-Thames
Samuel Joslin (Actor) .. Thomas
Oaklee Pendergast (Actor) .. Simon
Marta Etura (Actor) .. Simone
Sonke Mohring (Actor) .. Karl
Geraldine Chaplin (Actor) .. Old woman
Born: July 31, 1944 in Santa Monica, California
Best Known For: Being Charlie Chaplin's daughter
Early-life: Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born on July 31, 1944, in Santa Monica, California. She's the eldest of eight children from her father Charlie Chaplin's fourth and final marriage to Oona, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Geraldine was educated at boarding schools in Switzerland and made her screen debut aged eight in Limelight, directed by her dad. She originally wanted to be a ballerina, but eventually decided to concentrate on acting.
Career: Geraldine began her professional career with roles in European projects, such as Gran Parada and Dernier Soir. Her breakthrough came in David Lean's adaptation of Dr Zhivago in 1965. She appeared in her father's A Countess from Hong Kong two years later. She's rarely been out of work since, mixing mainstream movies and TV shows with arty European fare. Among her more famous projects are The Three Musketeers and its sequels, Nashville, The Mirror Crack'd, My Cousin Rachel, White Mischief, Jane Eyre and Dinotopia. She also played her own grandmother in biopic Chaplin.
Quote: 'I thought it'd be easy to get into the movies as Charlie Chaplin's daughter. And it was. Except I wasn't much good as an actress.'
Trivia: In 2006, she was awarded the Gold medal by the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences.
Juan Antonio Bayona (Director)