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Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American war, romance, and drama film directed by Michael Bay. The screenplay was written by Randall Wallace, who also served as an executive producer. The cast includes Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, and Cuba Gooding Jr. Hans Zimmer composed the music, while John Schwartzman was the director of photography and Roger Barton was the film editor. Produced by Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, the movie was distributed by Netflix and Disney+.
The narrative is set in Japan, England, and Tennessee, with filming taking place in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Mexico, and Honolulu. The film’s main subjects include the Attack on Pearl Harbor, aviation, World War II, and the Battle of Britain. It has a runtime of 183 minutes and was rated PG-13. The production had a budget of 140000000 and generated revenue of 449220945.
Pearl Harbor received various ratings, including a 6.3 score on IMDb and a 6.936 average on TMDb. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound, the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and Golden Globes. The film won one Oscar, accumulating 14 wins and 51 nominations in total. Its original languages are Japanese, English, and French.
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Film · TMDB
6.9The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Cast
- Ben Affleck as Rafe McCawley
- Josh Hartnett as Danny Walker
- Kate Beckinsale as Evelyn Johnson
- William Lee Scott as Billy
- Greg Zola as Anthony Fusco
- Ewen Bremner as Red
Themes
- army
- airplane
- nurse
- patriotism
- hawaii
- world war ii
- pilot
- pearl harbor
- u.s. air force
- dyslexia
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Ratings
IMDb
6.3/10
367,857 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
24%
Metacritic
44/100
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 183 min
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 14 wins & 51 nominations total
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Encyclopedic overview
Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. Starring Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin, the film features a heavily fictionalized version of the attack on Pearl Harbor, focusing on a love triangle set amidst the lead up to the attack, its aftermath, and the Doolittle Raid.
The film was produced by Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution on May 25, 2001, and was a box office success, grossing $59 million in its opening weekend and $449.2 million worldwide, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2001, but received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the performances, dialogue, runtime and historical inaccuracies, but was praised for the visual effects, action sequences and musical score. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning in the category of Best Sound Editing, but was also nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture.
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