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Apollo 13

Apollo 13

1995
PG
140 min
Adventure Drama History

Plot Summary

Based on the true story of the ill-fated 13th Apollo mission bound for the moon. Astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert were scheduled to fly Apollo 14, but are moved up to 13. It's 1970, and The US has already achieved their lunar landing goal, so there's little interest in this "routine" flight.. until that is, things go very wrong, and prospects of a safe return fade.

7.7
IMDb Rating
94%
Rotten Tomatoes
78
Metacritic
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Ratings & Reviews

7.7
IMDb Rating
94%
Rotten Tomatoes
78
Metacritic

Technical Details

140 min
Runtime
30 Jun 1995
Release Date
PG
Content Rating
Movie
Content Type
1995
Year
Genres
Adventure Drama History

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User Reviews

Wuchak

Wuchak

6.0/10
Recent

_**Cinematic account of the ill-fated Apollo mission**_ In April, 1970, the Apollo 13 mission to the moon is aborted after an explosion causes internal damage. The three astronauts and Mission Control must now focus on merely surviving and getting back alive, if possible. Directed by Ron Howard, “Apollo 13” (1995) is a solid account of the real-life events and obviously influenced “The Martian” twenty years later, which is even better, albeit not based on historical events. I suppose ...

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7.0/10
Recent

This does take a while to get going, but once space-bound, it proves to be quite a compelling tale of three astronauts who find themselves stranded in their spacecraft after an oxygen tank blows up. Ron Howard now presents us with a potently claustrophobic couple of hours and the men - Lovell (Tom Hanks); Haise (Bill Paxton) and Swigert (Kevin Bacon) must work with their ground control colleagues led by Mattingly (Gary Sinese) and Kranz (an excellent Ed Harris) to try to calculate some way of ge...

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30 Jun 1995
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