
Jennifer Connelly as Amanda MarshĪmanda Marsh was the wife of Eric Marsh. Around the firehouse, Marsh was "Papa," the old man who worried about his boys. Marsh had led the hotshots since the team first became a nationwide firefighting crew in 2008. Josh Brolin as Eric MarshĮric Marsh, 43, was the leader of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and, on the day of the tragedy, had become a supervisor over firefighting operations for the Yarnell Hill blaze. Here is a look at the film's stars and the real-life heroes they're portraying. READ MORE: What Granite Mountain Hotshots movie gets right and wrong Hollywood's take on the tragic events of June 30, 2013, when 19 Granite Mountain Hotshot firefighters were overtaken by a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, stars Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly and Taylor Kitsch. 6 on DVD and Blu-ray.The film "Only the Brave," based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and the fatal Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona, opens in theaters Friday, Oct. It didn't help "LBJ" that a similar film, "All the Way," came out on HBO in 2016, earning six Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe nomination for Bryan Cranston as Johnson. Released in November, the film tanked in theaters, costing $36 million and bringing in only $2.5 million. No doubt Michael "Meathead" Stivic, Reiner's radical hippie character long ago on "All in the Family," wouldn't look at Johnson nearly as favorably as director Reiner does. Overlooked is his escalation of the Vietnam War, which led to his political downfall. The film focuses on his abrupt transition to power after the tragedy in Dallas and his subsequent efforts to pass the landmark Civil Rights Act.

president, portraying him as a sensitive man with an enormous ego, a master of backroom politics who felt unliked as the front man at the White Office. Director Rob Reiner helps Harrelson slide comfortably into the role of the 35th U.S. Woody Harrelson requires heavy makeup but not a lot of heavy lifting to play Lyndon Baines Johnson in this sympathetic biopic.
