Movie · Drama · Biography

I SAW THE LIGHT is the story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston), who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life. Also starring Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford, Maddie Hasson and Wrenn Schmidt.

2016 · 2h 3m
Director Marc Abraham

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I Saw the Light

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I SAW THE LIGHT is the story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston), who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life. Also starring Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford, Maddie Hasson and Wrenn Schmidt.

COMMON SENSE

Strong acting, great music in mature but predictable biopic.

TOMATOMETER
Average 4.6
Reviews 157
Fresh 30
Rotten 127

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Studio
Sony Pictures Classics
Released
2016
Run Time
2 hr 3 min
Rated
R for some language and brief sexuality/nudity.
Region of Origin
United States
© 2016 I Saw The Light Movie, LLC and RatPac ISTL LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AD, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United Kingdom) , Arabic , Bulgarian , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Italian (Italy) , Korean , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Russian , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai , Ukrainian

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.