Apollo 13 (1995)
Plot summary
Directed by: Ron Howard
Starring: Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks
A trip to the moon is planned but the ship malfunctions halfway.
Factual error: When Lovell's daughter is complaining that the Beatles have broken up, she slams the album Let It Be into her rack. The scene takes place on the day of the initial explosion aboard Apollo 13, April 13 1970 - immediately prior to the Lovell family attending the screening of a television broadcast from the spacecraft. Let It Be was not released as an album until May 9th, 1970. In April Ringo was still recording drum tracks, not even possible for an advance copy to get out.
Gene Kranz: I don't care about what anything was *designed* to do. I care about what it *can* do.
Trivia: The Captain of the Iwo-Jima who Tom Hanks talks to at the end of the movie is the real Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell.
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