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Apollo 13 (film)

Apollo 13
A thin light-gray crescent Moon stretches diagonally from lower left to upper right against a black background, with a blue and white crescent Earth in the far distance. In front of the portion of the Moon that is in shadow on the left appears a small image of the Apollo 13 Command/Service Module joined to the Lunar Module, with vapor streaming from a hole in the side of the Service Module — the words "Houston, we have a problem" appear directly above the craft in white lower-case lettering. The names of the principal actors appear in white lettering at the top of the image, and the title APOLLO 13 in block white upper-case letters appears at the lower right.
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ron Howard
Produced by Brian Grazer
Screenplay by William Broyles, Jr.
Al Reinert
Based on Lost Moon
by Jim Lovell
Jeffrey Kluger
Starring
Music by James Horner
Cinematography Dean Cundey
Edited by Daniel P. Hanley
Mike Hill
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • June 30, 1995 (1995-06-30) (United States)
Running time
 140 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $52 million
Box office $355.2 million
Apollo 13: Music From The Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by James Horner
Released June 27, 1995
Genre Soundtrack
Length 77:41
Label MCA
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
Filmtracks.com 5/5 stars
SoundtrackNet 4/5 stars
Tracksounds 9/10 stars

Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama space adventure film directed by Ron Howard. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles, Jr., and Al Reinert, that dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.

The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon landing mission. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.

Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA's technical 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.

Released to cinemas in the United States on June 30, 1995,Apollo 13 was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture (winning for Best Film Editing and Best Sound). In total, the film grossed over $355 million worldwide during its theatrical releases. The film was very positively received by critics.


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