Tom Hanks stars in this thrilling portrait of heroic airline pilot Chesley Sully Sullenberger, re-enacting his incredible successful emergency landing of an Airbus A320 full of passengers on the Hudson River.
Sully is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Todd Komarnicki, based on the autobiography
Highest Duty by Captain Chesley Sully Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow . The film stars Tom Hanks as Sullenberger, with Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn , Autumn Reeser , Holt McCallany , Jamey Sheridan and Jerry Ferrara in supporting roles. The film follows Sullenberger’s January 2009 emergency landing of a commuter jet on the Hudson River, which all 155 passengers and crew survived with only minor injuries, and the subsequent publicity and investigation.