Not Without Hope (2025)

Directed by

Joe Carnahan

Genre

drama film, thriller film, survival film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 83 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Nick Schuyler is the only person to survive a 2009 boat accident that killed three NFL football players and a friend. The film follows his struggle to stay alive in open water after their vessel capsizes.

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What happens

Not Without Hope is a 2025 survival thriller film directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Zachary Levi as Nick Schuyler, the real-life sole survivor of a 2009 boating accident that took the lives of NFL football players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith as well as Will Bleakley. The screenplay was written by E. Nicholas Mariani and Joe Carnahan and is based on Schuyler and Jeré Longman's 2010 nonfiction book of the same title. The film premiered at Austin Film Festival on October 25, 2025, and was released in theaters on December 12. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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