TC scores once again, and I believe this is his best work yet! Cokeville Wyoming was the sight of a parent's worst nightmare on May 16th, 1986 when a mentally disturbed man and his wife entered an elementary school with guns and a homemade gasoline bomb. "The Cokeville Miracle," which is not yet rated and has a running time of 93 minutes, is scheduled for limited release June 5. The man's name was David Young, a former town marshal. Fresh off this experience and sensitive to the impact of talking about heavy topics, a friend looped me into a Facebook thread about a new movie coming out in June called "The Cokeville Miracle." The True Story of the Cokeville Miracle. Christensen. I've driven past Cokeville, Wyoming, but never knew about the madman and his wife who held an elementary school hostage in 1986. After a stand-off lasting two and a half hours, the gasoline bomb the couple had brought into the school went off prematurely, badly burning Doris Young while David Young was out of the room. Directed by T.C. Linda June 10, 2015. 3 Comments | Post or read comments . The film stays very close to that written record. My name is Kamron Wixom, I was a 12 year old 6th grader in 1986 when a mad man took over my school (Cokeville Elementary) with a bomb and his guns. Children who were held hostage in their elementary school tell stories of miraculous things, but many adults are skeptical that the Cokeville Miracle ever truly happened. The Cokeville Miracle hits theatres Friday June 5 th. On a sunny Friday afternoon in 1986, the unthinkable happened in the small town of Cokeville, Wyoming. You can search the web for yourself and find quite reasonable natural explanations for the Loretto Chapel staircase staying up—if that’s the ‘miracle’ you mean: see for instance The Loretto Chapel staircase: A lesson in physics, not miracles. Sharon Haddock is a professional writer with more than 35 years' experience, 17 at the Deseret News. Adults yell at children. With Jasen Wade, Sarah Kent, Kimball Stinger, Alexa Rae. … The Cokeville Miracle is a 2015 drama film written & directed by T. C. Christensen and starring Jasen Wade, Sarah Kent and Kimball Stinger. 154 of us were held hostage for almost 3 hours in a 30x32 room when the bomb actually detonated - all 154 hostages survived. It sounds like surefire fodder for a faith-based film, which is exactly what "The Cokeville Miracle" is. I had read the book some years ago and was touched by it. To find out more, click here. At least 74 people, most of them children, suffered second-degree burns when the bomb went off at about 4 P.M. at the Cokeville Elementary School. Content advisory: There are scenes that would be scary for young children and a bomb explodes. He had been the tiny's towns only police officer in six months during 1979 and when he was fired, he moved to Tucson, Arizona. The film was based on the Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis in 1986 and the book The Cokeville Miracle: When Angels Intervene by Hartt Wixom and Judene Wixom. Two people walked into the local elementary school and took the town’s children and teachers hostage. The Cokeville hostage crisis began the afternoon of May 16, 1986, when David and Doris Young took 154 children and adults hostage at the Cokeville Elementary School in tiny Cokeville, Wyo. And took the town ’ s children and teachers hostage the unthinkable happened in the small of. 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