Alongside his supervisor pal Duane (a gentle, muted Jeff Bridges), Eric has been fighting to get his men certified as a “Type 1” unit, aka a “hotshot” crew - the highest-ranking certification among wildfire crews. The couple live on a remote farm, where Amanda’s keen on settling down with their horses and starting a family, even as Eric can’t pull himself away from his duties. 'Luckiest Girl Alive' Review: Mila Kunis Leads Shaky Assault Survivor StoryĮric “Supe” Marsh (Brolin) has been churning away at his managerial routine for what seems like eons, bouncing between barking orders at fratty troops as they extinguish various wildfires in the area and tending to his supportive wife Amanda (Jennifer Connelly, so sharp and engaged it’s a wonder she doesn’t surface in better projects). New Movies: Release Calendar for October 7, Plus Where to Watch the Latest Films That makes it stand apart from other approaches to adaptations of real-life catastrophes: Avoiding the morbid inevitability of “United 93” or the pulsating thriller dynamics of “Everest,” director Joseph Kosinski and writers Ken Nolan and Warren Singer turn this earnest, watchable story into a portrait of the strong-willed men. The two-hour plus working class drama stars Josh Brolin as the hardened leader of the group and Miles Teller as the eventual lookout struggling to find his place in the pack. The result is a tasteful, well-acted bore, but so out of sync with traditional studio filmmaking it deserves some kudos anyway.
The movie is so cautious about avoiding disaster movie tropes that you can practically sense the resistance to arriving at the tragic finale.
That’s the setting for “ Only the Brave,” but it takes almost the entire running time to get there.
Only one member of the group, a lookout stationed elsewhere, survived the massacre. In June 2013, the Yarnell wildfire in Arizona spiraled out of control and killed 19 firefighters from nearby Prescott, marking the highest death toll for U.S.
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