Starring: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton
One of the biggest hits of 1995!
Amazing tale of the desperate days of near-tragic Lunar mission!
Apollo 13 crew was forced to hobble home in a disabled capsule after
an explosion
seriously damaged the moon-bound spacecraft.
NASA's worst nightmare turned into one of the space agency's most heroic
moments in 1970!
Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton play (respectively) astronauts
Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in this authentic docudrama.
Houston-based mission controllers and the Apollo 13 crew race against
time and heavy odds to return the damaged spacecraft safely to Earth from
a distance of 205,500 miles.
With special effects and ingenious film making techniques, Howard and
his crew build nail-biting tension while maintaining close fidelity to
the facts. |