This post is for those looking for some distraction from Hollywood.
For those wishing to see a recent Hollywood movie involving statistics, albeit vaguely. There is an informal tradition among statisticians to report Hollywood movies that specifically include a statistician or statistical concepts. Moneyball comes to mind.
I just saw a movie that is unlikely to remain in the theaters for long. That is "pressure". This describes a mostly true story about the Allied invasion on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
The title pressure may refer either to the barometric pressure from two storms that arrived at the beach, or to the pressure two meteorologists were under to produce weather reports, or to the Pressure that the Supreme Commander of the Allies was under to make the decision to begin the D-Day invasion. The general (for those from a different generation, "Ike" is General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allied commander). And Ike had to make a decision to either proceed with the schedule for the D-Day invasion on June 5 or delay to later date in June. a point of history, the five beaches for DDAY were Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword.
My Hope is to avoid statistical "spoiler alerts" there are two meteorologists with very different perspectives on the weather. And I think a well-done portrayal and acting on "decision making under uncertainty". To avoid spoilers, there is one scene where one meteorologist accuses the other meteorologist of "cherry picking the weather data. " Watchful statisticians will notice that the phrase "cherry picking" is never used. However, that it was cherry picking the weather data is clear.
Not surprisingly, the weather charts and other data that was available to the meteorologists can be found in a museum and perhaps could be used in a classroom
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who-we-are/our-history/met-office-d-day-weather-forecast
and the recreations and re-analyses of the weather reports here:
https://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/projects/era-clim/d-day-analyses
A different matter, for those who stay to the very end of the credits, there was a quote at the very end of the credits, which my A.I. (anthropic) appears to have resolved.
The quote
While riding to the Capitol on Inauguration Day in 1961, President-elect Kennedy asked Eisenhower why the Normandy invasion had been so successful, and Eisenhower answered: "Because we had better meteorologists than the Germans."  
According to the A.I.
Historians haven't been able to locate an original document that definitively verifies it, so there's a small question about whether it's an exact quote or a well-traveled anecdote  - but the sentiment is considered historically valid by military historians. 
-chris
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Chris Barker, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics
University of Illinois Chicago, UIC-SPH
www.barkerstats.com---
"In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds."
-Steve Lacy
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