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Blumhouse Productions
Comet Pictures
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The Lost Bus
Inspired by a true story of survival.
A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.
- Original title
- The Lost Bus
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $90,000,000
- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Oct 15, 2025 · via TMDB
Ok, so there’s no volcano, but otherwise this is a pretty straightforward hybrid of “Dante’s Peak” (1997) and “Speed” (1994) only here it is Matthew McConaughey who’s driving the bus. Of course, we have the usual dysfunctional family background for the recently divorced and struggling “Kevin” as he tries to reconcile with his disinterested son “Shaun” (his own real life son Levi) who has come to stay with him and his wheelchair-bound mother (his own real life mother Kay). He has been doing his school run when he espies plumes of smoke coming from the hillside above their town, a town where wind gusts of sixty miles per hour are common and where it hasn’t rained for months - so the vast expanse of forest is a tinderbox. Next thing, one of the high-altitude power lines has become disconnected and it’s sparks have started a conflagration that has soon taken hold, causing chaos and leaving a group of children stranded in their school in the path of the flames. With nobody else available, “Kevin” quite reluctantly volunteers to drive to collect them. By now, he’s guessed the dangers they are all in, and so isn’t best impressed when he meets their rather fastidious teacher “Mary” (America Ferrera) but those reservations - like just about everything else - melt away as the fires closes in around them and their journey becomes a matter of life and death. McConaughey does fine here, but the real problem is the complete lack of jeopardy throughout. Despite some crack(l)ing visual effects accompanied by some really quite effective audio, there simply isn’t any way this film is going to end with lots of sprogs being charbroiled inside a big yellow bus! Once that is settled, the rest of this is quite well paced but really nothing special. It’s based on true events and at times it does showcase some of the freneticism that ensued as the authorities fought valiantly to arrest a series of fires that were making mincemeat of all of their ground defences and grounding their air ones, too. It also spotlights the worst in human nature as looters and opportunists take advantage of the breakdown of law and order. If anything, this film does remind us of just how little mankind can be when nature gets fed up with us, and also of however devastating the damage, how readily it can rejuvenate - but that hasn’t really got much to do with the quality of the actors nor of the meekly written dialogue. It’s a compelling watch, but I suspect once will do.
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Matthew McConaughey
Kevin McKay
America Ferrera
Mary Ludwig
Yul Vazquez
Chief Martinez
Ashlie Atkinson
Ruby Bishop
Kimberli Flores
Linda
Kay McConaughey
Sherry
Kate Wharton
Jen Kissoon
Danny McCarthy
Matt McKenzie
Spencer Watson
Elliot Hopkins
Autumn Molina
Chloe
Kaius Eteeyan
Kai
Sophie Jane Frick
Maya
Gary Kraus
Sheriff Thomas
Devon Wycoff
Brandie Rendon
Peter Diseth
PG&E Rep
Denielle Fisher Johnson
Principal Hayes
Mo Beatty
C. Kierman
Ginger T. Rex
Vet
Christopher Hagen
Concow Resident
Merritt C. Glover
Drug Store Assistant
Jermaine Washington
Father
Sofia Embid
Mother
Carrie Lazar
Teacher
Martin Patterson
Maintenance Man
Eb Lottimer
Roe Road Man
Henry Frost
Roe Road Man
John Grabowska
Reporter
Dylan Goss
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Pål Ulvik Rokseth
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Mark Bridges
Costume Design
Jake Dashnaw
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Jeff Dashnaw
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Mark Norby
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Vaia Zaganas
Stunt Double
Donna Evans
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Mic Rodgers
Stunt Driver
Steve M. Davison
Stunt Driver
Ben Scott
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Casey Adams
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Cassidy Vick Hice
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Chad Dashnaw
Stunts
David Pinter
Stunts
Dylan Hice
Stunts
Ed Duran
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Ernie Vigil
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Henry Frost
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Jeremy Fitzgerald
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Jermaine Washington
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Josh Kemble
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Keisha Tucker
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Macy Devenport-Sanders
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Ryan Ryusaki
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Stanley White Jr.
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Sterlin English
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Zack Duhame
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Jade Quon
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Paul Greengrass
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William Goldenberg
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Russell Goldman
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William Goldenberg
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Gregory Goodman
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Jamie Lee Curtis
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