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J. A. Bayona's The Impossible dramatizes one family's struggle to survive the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami while vacationing in Thailand. Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor play Maria and Henry, with Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin and Oaklee Pendergast as their sons. The story follows the separated family through the immediate disaster and the search to reunite.
The film is included with Netflix and available free on demand through Pluto TV in the United States as of October 30, 2026. Its U.S. Oscar-qualifying run began on December 21, 2012, before expansion in January 2013. Pluto and Apple list 113 minutes, while Rotten Tomatoes rounds the runtime to 114 minutes.
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