"When I went to a screening of The Lost Bus at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, it was in a very big theater with a big screen and a big audience. The story of a bus driver and a schoolteacher getting a bus full of children to safety during California's devastating 2018 Camp Fire, it stars Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, and there was quite a bit of curiosity about it."
"and as sometimes happens, there was a kind of a big exhale, just "whew," as we unwound the tension. Someone muttered something about it being a lot to take in, and the woman standing opposite me told us that she'd just been through a fire like that recently, and she started to cry a little. By the time we got off the elevator, she seemed to have gathered herself, and she found her friends."
The Lost Bus centers on a bus driver and a schoolteacher who evacuate a bus full of children during California's devastating 2018 Camp Fire. The film stars Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera and uses the confined setting of a school bus to focus the drama. The movie presents intense, large-scale fire imagery that can be emotionally powerful, especially for people who have experienced similar disasters. The Camp Fire occurred seven years ago and similar fires continue to occur, underscoring the ongoing scale of the wildfire challenge. Home viewing remains common, but the film's cinematic presentation amplifies its impact.
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