Apollo 13

by Tom Hanks (Actor)

Other authorsGary Sinise (Actor), Chris Ellis (Actor), Ron Howard (Director), Brian Grazer (Producer), Ed Harris (Actor), Kevin Bacon (Actor), Steve Pederson (Technical Editor), Mike Hill (Editor), Bill Paxton (Actor), Al Reinert (Writer), Kathleen Quinlan (Actor) — 11 more, David Andrews (Actor), Dan Hanley (Editor), David Macmillan (Technical Editor), William Broyles Jr. (Writer), Miko Hughes (Actor), Max Elliott Slade (Actor), Scott Millan (Technical Editor), Jean Speegle Howard (Actor), Mary Kate Schellhardt (Actor), Emily Ann Lloyd (Actor), Rick Dior (Technical Editor)

Other, 2011

Call number

Book 2 Memorex; ripped

Collection

Movies

Publication

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (1998), Edition: Collector's Edition

Description

A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.

User reviews

LibraryThing member bun65

Had never seen the movie once, but once again try to read in English is quite difficult.
If you do not know and talk about the movie, I think the word may be difficult.
Part of the story had been forgotten and I had also become well know the meaning.
Otherwise, the story is good and olso I could enjoy.

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LibraryThing member LisaMaria_C

This is one of my favorite films--one I saw more than once in theaters and then watched to death on DVD. I just adored that one scene where you see the rocket smoking, ice falling as it shoots up in the sky with the wives of the astronauts watching. And the scenes in Mission Control as they pull

together a plan to save the astronauts. Ed Harris was particularly memorable as Gene Krantz--but the cast didn't have one weak link. I have a friend who didn't like the film--but she doesn't care for Tom Hanks and is no space buff. Otherwise, I'd think this is a surefire winner I'd recommend to anyone.

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LibraryThing member infjsarah

Rewatch of a favourite film. I love this film - I think it's fabulously done. I am too young to remember the real life occurance so the first time I saw this I had no idea what would happen. And although it's a story about engineering going wrong, it's also a story about very clever engineers and

scientists making engineering go right. The making a square peg fit in a round hole is one of my favourite scenes in this. Brilliant all around.

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