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Apollo 13

Cast

Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise View All

Crew

Ron Howard (Director), William Broyles Jr. (Screenplay), Al Reinert (Screenplay) View All

Released: Jun. 30th, 1995

Runtime: 2 hours, 20 minutes

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, 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.

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Citizen Rules
We see and learn of all the technical crisis that the three man crew faced...and we also see the team back at Houston control that worked feverishly to bring the astronauts back home.

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Gideon58
Robbed of the Oscar for Best Picture of 1995, Apollo 13 is an often heart stopping docudrama that is, more than anything a testament to the directorial genius of Ron Howard, who managed to tell a compelling true story laced with an underlying theme I really didn't connect with the first time I watched it 20 years ago.

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