Apollo 13 (1995)
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon
True story of the moon-bound mission that developed severe trouble and the men that rescued it with skill and dedication.
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PG, 2 hrs. 20 min.
Directed by:
Ron Howard
Release Date: Jun 30, 1995
DVD Release Date: Sep 07, 2004
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Its amazing how it can still be thrilling even if we know the conclusion.
Truly amazing. My very first DVD. Going to Florida and seeing the actual remains that survived is inspiring.
This movie was featured in People magazine back in 1995 and showed how Ron Howard acheived the weightlessness using an airplane.
Not a movi... (read more) Truly amazing. My very first DVD. Going to Florida and seeing the actual remains that survived is inspiring.
This movie was featured in People magazine back in 1995 and showed how Ron Howard acheived the weightlessness using an airplane.
Not a movie, but a tribute to these heros.
A must for your movie collection. Great starting point to help in your 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon game
For reasons that are still a mystery to me, this is one of my absolute favorite films. The performances, the story, the music, everything all seems to work perfectly for me.
Maybe it was me, but I found this movie to be long and boring. I am not a huge Tom Hanks fan. I really wanted to like it, but it fell short for me
This description fits about every Ron Howard movie: "It was pretty good, but eh."
Great potential, but Ron Howard's paint-by-numbers directorial style make this a plodding, documentary-esque TV movie. Only the good performances, particularly Ed Harris' director of operations, and a very good screenplay give it cinematic appeal.
most memorable scene in the movie :
Television Reporter: Is there a specific instance in an airplane emergency when you can recall fear?
Jim Lovell: Uh well, I'll tell ya, I remember this one time - I'm in a Banshee at night in combat condition... (read more) most memorable scene in the movie :
Television Reporter: Is there a specific instance in an airplane emergency when you can recall fear?
Jim Lovell: Uh well, I'll tell ya, I remember this one time - I'm in a Banshee at night in combat conditions, so there's no running lights on the carrier. It was the Shrangri-La, and we were in the Sea of Japan and my radar had jammed, and my homing signal was gone... because somebody in Japan was actually using the same frequency. And so it was - it was leading me away from where I was supposed to be. And I'm lookin' down at a big, black ocean, so I flip on my map light, and then suddenly: zap. Everything shorts out right there in my cockpit. All my instruments are gone. My lights are gone. And I can't even tell now what my altitude is. I know I'm running out of fuel, so I'm thinking about ditching in the ocean. And I, I look down there, and then in the darkness there's this uh, there's this green trail. It's like a long carpet that's just laid out right beneath me. And it was the algae, right? It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets churned up in the wake of a big ship. And it was - it was - it was leading me home. You know? If my cockpit lights hadn't shorted out, there's no way I'd ever been able to see that. So uh, you, uh, never know... what... what events are to transpire to get you home.
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A powerful story, one of the year's best films, told with great clarity and remarkable technical detail, and acted without pumped-up histrionics.full review
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