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Pressure is an intensely gripping, high-stakes historical war thriller streaming on digital platforms via Focus Features and Universal Pictures. Directed by Anthony Maras (Hotel Mumbai) and co-written by David Haig—adapting his own critically acclaimed 2014 stage play—the film side-steps the traditional battlefields of World War II to deliver a masterfully crafted, ticking-clock psychological thriller set entirely inside a high-pressure military war room.

The narrative unfolds during the incredibly tense 72 hours leading up to Operation Overlord, famously known as the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe in June 1944. With hundreds of thousands of Allied troops, ships, and tanks assembled and poised to launch the largest amphibious assault in human history, the success of the entire free world unexpectedly hinges on a single, unpredictable variable: the volatile British weather. Enter Group Captain James Stagg (Andrew Scott), the meticulous, data-driven Scottish Chief Meteorological Officer, who is brought into the secret Allied headquarters at Southwick House to deliver the most consequential weather forecast in history.

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