Apollo 13 Director: Ron Howard Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise
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- HD-DVD Release Date: 04/25/2006
- Original Release: 1995
- Rating:
FOR PARENTS
- Common Sense Rates this for Ages: More
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Lost Moon: the triumph of Apollo 13- the making of Apollo 13; Feature commentary with director Ron Howard; Feature commentary with Jim and Marilyn Lovell; Conquering Space: the moon and beyond- a recap of the last 45 years in space; Lucky 13: the astronauts' story- recounting the events of the mission
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"Houston, we have a problem." Those words were immortalized during the tense days of the Apollo 13 lunar mission crisis in 1970, events recreated in this epic historical drama from
Ron Howard. Astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) leads command module pilot Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) and lunar module driver Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) on what is slated as NASA's third lunar landing mission. All goes smoothly until the craft is halfway through its mission, when an exploding oxygen tank threatens the crew's oxygen and power supplies. As the courageous astronauts face the dilemma of either suffocating or freezing to death, Mattingly and Mission Control leader Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) struggle to find a way to bring the crew back home, all the while knowing that the spacemen face probable death once the battered ship reenters the Earth's atmosphere. The film received an overwhelmingly enthusiastic critical response and a Best Picture nomination, but lost that Oscar to another (very different) historical epic, Mel Gibson's Braveheart. In 2002, the movie was released in IMAX theaters as Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience, with a pared-down running time of 116 minutes in order to meet the technical requirements of the large-screen format. Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
Why We Rated This Appropriate for Ages 12 and UP
What to watch out for
- Drugs:
Drinking at party, lots of smoking.
- Language:
A couple of mild expletives.
- Violence:
Very tense, characters in peril.
- Messages
- Sex:
One or two oblique references, including one to "the clap."
- Consumerism:
Not an issue.
What Parents Need to Know
About Apollo 13
Parents need to know that it's a good idea to prepare younger kids beforehand by telling them what the movie is about, and you may want to reassure them, since it is a true story, that the astronauts did come home all right. Note that everyone in Mission Control is a white male (and they all smoke all the time).
Families Can Talk About
Families can talk about the way that Mission Control solves the problems happening thousands of miles away, by re-creating the conditions inside the spaceship. Point out how the adults handle the strain, sometimes losing their tempers or blaming one another (or trying to escape blame), but mostly working very well together.
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