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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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Film · TMDB
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Named after
- Apollo 13
- Genre
- historical film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Apollo 13
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Screenwriter
- Jeffrey Kluger
- Composer
- James Horner
- Producer
- Brian Grazer
- Cinematographer
- Dean Cundey
- Narrative location
- Houston
- Filming location
- Universal Pictures
- Duration
- 134
- FilmAffinity ID
- 720320
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1995-10-19
- title
- Apollo 13
- film editor
- Mike Hill
- distributed by
- Netflix
- Commons category
- Apollo 13 (film)
- after a work by
- Jeffrey Kluger
- characters
- Walter Cronkite
- capital cost
- 62000000
- box office
- 173837933
- different from
- Apollo 13
- set in environment
- outer space
- review score
- 7.7/10
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