The film opens with a stark aerial view of bodies on a beach after Operation Tiger, the failed Allied rehearsal for D-Day. It follows days before the invasion, centered on a small team of meteorologists at Southwick House near Portsmouth, England. Royal Air Force Group Captain James Stagg and U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel Irving P. Krick advise General Dwight D. Eisenhower on air and sea conditions for the summer 1944 advance. Krick pushes for optimism and selectively uses favorable weather patterns to argue that D-Day should proceed on June 5. Stagg resists, insisting on a more cautious approach and challenging Krick’s certainty. The story aims to turn forecasting into a philosophical battlefield with global consequences, but it shifts into a melodramatic chamber-piece feel.
"It’s a bird’s-eye view of countless bloody bodies scattered across a beach following Operation Tiger: the disastrous Allied rehearsal for D-Day that left hundreds of men dead weeks before the real invasion of Normandy ever began. For that brief moment, filmmaker Anthony Maras seems poised to make something politically urgent and even psychologically immersive from one of World War II's most pivotal strategic decisions."
"Set in the days immediately leading up to D-Day, Focus Features' new war drama centers on Royal Air Force Group Captain James Stagg (Andrew Scott), U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel Irving P. Krick (Chris Messina), and the two odd-couple meteorologists' small team of scientists stationed at Southwick House near Portsmouth, England. The military men are tasked with advising General Eisenhower (Fraser) on the air and sea conditions surrounding the Allies' key advance in the summer of 1944."
"Krick, a swaggering and singing(!) American forecaster, who gets introduced like he just wandered in from a winning 'Mary Poppins Returns' audition, argues for optimism to a fault. Cherry-picking favorable year-over-year weather patterns to justify moving ahead with the invasion on June 5, Krick wants to tell Eisenhower that D-Day is a 'go.' But opposing him is Stagg, a Scottish, stick-in-the-mud academic, who insists on making the team's join"
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