---FINEST KIND: THE NEW BEDFORD FISHING INDUSTRY ---

Like its main characters, this movie is at its best on the sea. This film’s location, the fishing community of New Bedford, Massachusetts, is where writer/director Brian Helgeland, grew up, and like its characters, he worked on a boat that collected deep sea scallops over 100 miles offshore for two weeks at a time.

Before we see anything, we hear the sounds of the ocean, the calls of the birds, the splashes of the waves. We can almost smell the salt in the air. Then we see Tom (Ben Foster) on the dock. He is, as he will be throughout the story, metaphorically between the freedom and clarity of the open sea and the constraints found on land, the complications of family obligations and conflicts with the rules imposed by bosses and politicians and girlfriends and money.

We learn quickly that for Tom, life has only two parts: being on the water and waiting to go back on the water. It is another world, the horizon disappearing as the sky and the water blend together. Under the boat, there are whales.

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https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/finestkind-film-review-2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE_lVVOZWbg

--- Cast of Finestkind ---

Ben Foster as Tom
Toby Wallace as Charlie
Jenna Ortega as Mabel
Tommy Lee Jones as Ray Eldridge
Ismael Cruz Córdova as Costa
Aaron Stanford as Skeemo
Scotty Tovar as Nunes
Tim Daly as Gary Sykes
Lolita Davidovich as Donna Sykes
Clayne Crawford as Pete Weeks
Lonnie Farmer as Rocky
Fernanda Andrade as Anne-Marie
Charlie Thurston as Mr. White
Meghan Leathers as Kathy
Brian McDonald as Paul
Chris Matacunas as Mark
Rebecca Gibel as Paulette

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