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Apollo 13
Cast
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise View AllCrew
William Broyles Jr. (Screenplay), Ron Howard (Director), Al Reinert (Screenplay) View All
Release: Jun. 30th, 1995
Runtime: 2 hours, 20 minutes
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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.

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 watch....