Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade.
Acting
Samuel Hunt captures Zamperini's haunted fragility with surprising restraint
Writing
The Billy Graham sermon scene — preachy on purpose, yet weirdly effective
Director
Harold Cronk
Samuel Hunt
Louis Zamperini
Merritt Patterson
Cynthia Applewhaite
Bob Gunton
Major
Will Graham
Billy Graham
David Sakurai
Watanabe 'The Bird'
Vanessa Bell Calloway
Lila Burkholder
Bobby Campo
Pete Zamperini
Andrew Lewis Caldwell
Harry Read
David DeLuise
Howard Lambert
Gianna Simone
Sylvia Zamperini
James Immekus
Robert Trumbull
Vincenzo Amato
Anthony Zamperini
Trisha LaFache
Receptionist
Maddie McCormick
Valerie
Derek Brandon
Chris Johnson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Will Graham, who plays his grandfather Billy here, is the real evangelist's actual grandson — nepotism or divine casting?
This Pure Flix production exists because Louie Zamperini specifically wanted the religious half of his story told, which Angelina Jolie's 2014 film deliberately avoided.
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