Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise. The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission. It was released to cinemas in the U.S. on June 30, 1995, and went on to become a box office hit in the United States and around the world. It has been hailed as one of the best films of the 20th century, along with The Godfather and The Matrix, among other films.
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Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise. The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission. It is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America’s fifth crewed mission to the Moon, which was intended to be the third to land. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of much of its oxygen supply and electrical power, which forces NASA’s flight controllers to abort the Moon landing and turns the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely. Apollo 13 received critical acclaim and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. In total, the film grossed over USD 355 million worldwide during its theatrical releases. It was released to cinemas in the U.S. on June 30, 1995, and went on to become a box office hit in the United States and around the world, grossing more than $1.2 billion. It has been hailed as one of the best films of the 20th century, along with The Godfather and The Matrix, among other films. The movie was released on Blu-ray, DVD, and Blu-Ray 3 on September 11, 2013. It also has a DVD release on September 14, 2013, and a Blu- ray 3-disc version of the film on September 15, 2013 and a DVD of the movie on September 16, 2013 with additional bonus material.
The DVD release includes a deleted scene of the Apollo 13 mission, as well as a deleted deleted scene from the second half of the second film. It will also be released on DVD on September 18, 2013; the DVD release will also include a deleted clip from the third film, Apollo 13: The Voyage That Saved My Life, which will be released the same day. The Blu-rays will also feature an additional deleted scene showing the final moments of the mission, including the crew’s final moments on board the Lunar Module Aquarius. The video will also show the crew making a television transmission, which the networks decline to broadcast live. In the film, Lovell laments his lost chance of walking on its surface, then turns their attention to the business of getting home on minimal electrical power. With Aquarius running on minimal power, the crew suffers freezing conditions, and Haise begins to feel moderate fever. Lovell suspects Mission Control is their inability to get them home. When carbon dioxide approaches dangerous levels, Haise angrily squelches the argument; Lovell angrily squashes the argument. When the crew finally find a way to turn on the command module’s engine, they must make a difficult correction by manually igniting the lunar Module’s engine.
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