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Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama and adventure film directed by Ron Howard. The screenplay was written by William Broyles, Jr., Al Reinert, Jim Lovell, and Jeffrey Kluger, with production led by Brian Grazer. The cast includes Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, and Gary Sinise. The film was produced by Imagine Entertainment and distributed by Netflix.
The narrative is set in Florida, Texas, and Houston, with filming taking place in San Diego, at the Kennedy Space Center, the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, and on Merritt Island. James Horner composed the score, while Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill served as film editors. Dean Cundey was the director of photography.
The movie has a runtime of 140 minutes and was released on June 30, 1995. It received a budget of 52,000,000 and generated revenue of 355,237,933. Audiences rated it 7.7 on IMDb and 7.457 on TMDb. The film won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, the Academy Award for Best Sound, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
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7.5The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.
Cast
- Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell
- Bill Paxton as Fred Haise
- Kevin Bacon as Jack Swigert
- Gary Sinise as Ken Mattingly
- Ed Harris as Gene Kranz
- Kathleen Quinlan as Marilyn Lovell
Themes
- rescue
- florida
- race against time
- moon
- nasa
- spaceman
- based on true story
- houston, texas
- survival
- space
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Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan. The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
The film tells the story of astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard the ill-fated Apollo 13 for the United States' fifth crewed mission to the Moon, which was intended to be the third to land. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of much of its oxygen supply and electrical power, which forces NASA's flight controllers to abandon the Moon landing and improvise scientific and mechanical solutions to get the three astronauts to Earth safely. Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA's assistance in astronaut and flight-controller training for his cast and obtaining permission to film scenes aboard a reduced-gravity aircraft for realistic depiction of the weightlessness experienced by the astronauts in space.
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