Apollo 13

Theatrical Release Date: 1995 06 30 (USA) / 2002 09 30 (USA - IMAX)

UPC: 025192046155

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Suitable for Teens]

Summary: "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, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Dramatic Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – null Best Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Supporting Actress – null Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Picture – Chicago Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble Acting – Screen Actors Guild Best Cinematography – American Society of Cinematographers Best Supporting Actor – Screen Actors Guild Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Moti – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: Lost Moon: The Triumph Of Apollo 13 - The Making of Apollo 13

Conquering Space: The Moon and Beyond
A Recap of half a century in space

Lucky 13: The Astronauts' Story
Recounting the events of the mission

Feature Commentaries with Director Ron Howard and Jim and Marilyn Lovell

D-Box Motion Enabled

Apollo 13

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 04/13/2010

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DHMA null, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo, DTS Digital Theater Systems

Runtime: 120 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Matthew Doberman

You can look up the result in any encyclopedia: all three astronauts made it home alive. But from the moment Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks) utters those fateful words -- "Houston, we have a problem" -- until the astronauts are safe on the deck of the USS Iwo Jima, you'll be on the edge of your seat in genuine suspense, hoping that somehow the seemingly inevitable catastrophe will be averted. Though a certain license has been taken with the truth (Ken Mattingly, for example, was not the one who devised the "power-up" procedure), Apollo 13 is largely faithful to actual events and sets a new high-water mark for putting real-life drama on the big screen. Director Ron Howard mixes the action in orbit with scenes back at NASA, detailing the frenzy and triumph that occurred on the ground as well as far above it. The acting is solid, the special effects spectacular, and the period and technical details recreated with single-minded accuracy. In fact, no documentary footage was used at all; every shot, effect, and model was new. Howard went to astounding lengths in his quest for realism. To achieve actual zero-gravity, for example, the cast and crew flew more than 500 parabolic flights in NASA's KC-135 airplane; each flight earned them only 23 seconds of weightlessness. The beauty of Apollo 13 is that it actually fulfills the clich? of "bringing history alive." For the millions of Americans who will never experience the national obsession of the Space Race, who will never understand how the country's pride could hinge on a few scared men in a jury-rigged tin can, or who will never list astronauts among their childhood heroes, Apollo 13 offers the unique opportunity to understand that glint in their parents' eyes. ~ Matthew Doberman, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Loren Dean  Actor 
Ryan Holihan  Actor 
Todd Louiso  Actor 
Ray McKinnon  Actor 
Arthur Senzy  Actor 
Tom Wood  Actor 
Jack Conley  Actor 
Brett Cullen  Actor 
Max Grodenchik  Actor 
Andrew Lipschultz  Actor 
John M. Mathews  Actor 
James Ritz  Actor 
Mark Wheeler  Actor 
Steve Ruge  Actor 
Bruce Wright  Actor 
Geoffrey Blake  Actor 
John Dullaghan  Actor 
Jean Speegle Howard  Actor 
Louisa Marie  Actor 
Austin O'Brien  Actor 
Max Elliott Slade  Actor 
Chris Ellis  Actor 
Ben Bode  Actor 
J.J. Chaback  Actor 
Christopher John Fields  Actor 
Miko Hughes  Actor 
Ben Marley  Actor 
Ned Vaughn  Actor 
Thom Barry  Actor 
Frank Cavestani  Actor 
Wayne Duvall  Actor 
Rance Howard  Actor 
Brian Markinson  Actor 
Joe Spano  Actor 
Todd Hallowell  Actor 
Mary Kate Schellhardt  Actor 
Christian Clemenson  Actor 
Googy Gress  Actor 
Herbert Jefferson, Jr.  Actor 
Karen Martin  Actor 
Tracy Reiner  Actor 
John Wheeler  Actor 
Emily Ann Lloyd  Actor 
David Andrews  Actor 
Joseph Culp  Actor 
Michelle Little  Actor 
Marc McClure  Actor 
Reed Rudy  Actor 
Kenneth White  Actor 
Larry B. Williams  Actor 
Xander Berkeley  Actor 
Julie Donatt  Actor 
Clint Howard  Actor 
Paul Mantee  Actor 
Andy Milder  Actor 
John Short  Actor 
Roger Corman  Actor 
Carl Gabriel Yorke  Actor 
Brian Grazer  Producer 
Todd Hallowell  Executive Producer 
James Horner  Composer (Music Score) 
Ron Howard  Director 
William Broyles  Screenwriter 
Al Reinert  Screenwriter 
Tom Hanks  Actor 
Bill Paxton  Actor 
Kevin Bacon  Actor 
Gary Sinise  Actor 
Ed Harris  Actor 
Kathleen Quinlan  Actor 

Country: USA