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The Cave (2019)

The Cave poster
Original title
นางนอน
Directed by
Tom Waller
Genre
drama film
Country
Thailand
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows multiple people involved in the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue. It shows their perspectives during the effort to save a group of boys trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand.

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What happens

The Cave (known in Thai as Nang Non, นางนอน) is a 2019 Thai action-drama film about the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, written and directed by Tom Waller and co-produced by Waller and Allen Liu. The story is written from the points of view of several individuals involved in the rescue operation, and features cave diver Jim Warny and others as themselves. The film premiered at the 2019 Busan International Film Festival, and was released in Thailand on 21 November. It had a re-edited release in 2022 as Cave Rescue. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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