THIRTEEN LIVES recounts the incredible true story of the tremendous global effort to rescue a Thai soccer team who become trapped in the Tham Luang cave network during an unexpected rainstorm.

A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding.Thirteen Lives / Film synopsis

From Amazon Studios and Director Ron Howard comes the biographical survival film, Thirteen Lives, a story of a coach and 12 boys trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. MPC provided cinematic visual effects for the film, including the underwater and cave environments.

Thirteen Lives Captures the Broad Strokes of the Real-Life Mission. The bulk of Thirteen Lives faithfully follows British cave divers John Volanthen (Farrell) and Rick Stanton (Mortensen), who are called in by the Thai government to lead an operation into Tham Luang to locate the boys and their coach.

“Thirteen Lives” is a film that celebrates love and unity that transcends cultures, backgrounds, ages, and even faiths. With the world seemingly more divided than ever before, a good reminder of how we can come together under the right circumstances can bring a welcome ray of hope.

For families, profanity in the film is in the PG-13 range, not very frequent but still present and noticeable. The only additional caution would be for unsettling images during rescue attempts.

Thirteen Lives is sober, efficient and even-handed, where The Rescue has a tendency towards strident scoring and emotional engineering. Howard's skilful, unshowy handling of events belies just how complex an undertaking this is as a piece of storytelling.

For families, profanity in the film is in the PG-13 range, not very frequent but still present and noticeable. The only additional caution would be for unsettling images during rescue attempts.

The Production Design of “Thirteen Lives” Collaborating with a dive safety team, stunt coordinator, and underwater camera team, Hughes designed a tank infrastructure that could push the realism of the film as far as possible without endangering the actors and divers. “You just work through it really methodically.

55 million USDThirteen Lives / Budget

And, while all the boys survived, two Thai divers lost their lives during the rescue.

The Trapped 13: How We Survived The Thai Cave Storyline: The group of 12 boys and their coach recall the harrowing ordeal of being stuck in Thailand's Tham Luang cave for 18 days.

I give Thirteen Lives 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 12 to 18, plus adults. This film releases in select theaters on July 29, 2022, and starts streaming on Prime Video August 5, 2022.

The MPAA rating has been assigned for “some strong language and unsettling images.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes many scenes of treacherous cave dives during a rescue mission to retrieve 13 people ending in the death of one man and a few scenes of people panicking and ending up with bloody scrapes, a few ...

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“Thirteen” is a cautionary tale, one that ultimately shows the perils of going “bad,” but the film is rated R for a reason. “Thirteen” contains profanity, shoplifting, drug and alcohol use, sexual situations, masochistic scenes of a young girl cutting herself and some nudity.