This Weekend, Honor Their Courage. See Their Story.

Today, June 6, marks the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, the date when the Allied forces turned the tide of World War II by launching the largest seaborne invasion in history. On June 6, 1944, 156,115 Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, either by landing via sea or being parachuted in. The months of extensive planning to break the Nazi hold on Europe rested on everything going right for the first few hours of the attack.

Anthony Maras’s Pressure dramatizes the role that James Stagg (Andrew Scott) played in bringing about this historic moment. Seventy-two hours before D-Day was to take place, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) and the British high command hired Stagg, a noted Scottish meteorologist, to confirm the weather conditions. Based on the play by David Haig (who also co-wrote the screenplay), Pressure “offers us the quiet heroism of rational restraint in the figure of James Stagg, who weathered his inner storms and bore the courage to be disliked” in order to do the right thing, writes NPR. “Featuring an award-worthy performance by Andrew Scott…Pressure lives up to its title with its expert ratcheting up of sustained tension,” writes The Hollywood Reporter.

 Get tickets for Pressure, now playing in theaters!