Against all odds, the Lighthouse International Film Festival celebrated a wildly successful opening last Tuesday night, screening Rod Lurie’s “The Outpost” for a full, yet socially distant, crowd attending the unique drive-in festival at Beach Haven’s Veterans Park.

“The Outpost,” starring Orlando Bloom, Scott Eastwood and Caleb Landry, is a powerful American war drama based on Jake Tapper’s best-selling nonfiction story about the 2009 Battle of Kamdesh.