(Apollo 13 [de])
USA 1995
d: Ron Howard
Universal Pictures Video (Region 1 us)
sc: William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert, John Sayles (uncredited) (based on the book Lost Moon by James A. Lovell Jr. and Jeffrey Kluger)
c: Dean Cundey (DeLuxe Color, Panavision)
e: Dan Hanley, Michael Hill
pd: Michael Corenblith
m: James Horner
p: Brian Grazer (Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment)
w: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, Mary Kate Schellhardt, Emily Ann Lloyd, Miko Hughes, Max Elliott Slade, Jean Speegle Howard, Tracy Reiner, David Andrews, Michele Little, Chris Ellis
pr: 22 Jun 1995
aw: Academy Awards 1996 Oscar Best Film Editing; Best Sound • American Society of Cinematographers 1996 Nominated ASC Award Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases • BAFTA Awards 1996 Best Achievement in Special Effects; Best Production Design • British Society of Cinematographers 1995 Nominated Best Cinematography Award
rt: 139:38 min
dvd-rl: 21 Dez 2002
ar: 2.35:1 (16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen)
sd: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround • French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround • Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround • Audio Commentary 1 Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono • Audio Commentary Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
st: English (captions), Spanish
supp: Collector's Edition
• Audio Commentary by director Ron Howard
• Audio Commentary by Original Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell and wife Marilyn Lovell
• Original documentary "The Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13" (58:04 min)
• Cast & crew bios
• Theatrical trailer (2:33 min)
• Production notes
Two hundred thousand miles from home, the Apollo 13 astronauts, Jim Lovell (Hanks, highly effective), Fred Haise (Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Bacon, great fun), find that a leaking fuel tank has made a moon landing impossible. Worse, the power drops so low, and the toxic gas levels rise so high, that the mission controllers in Houston fear they may lose their first astronauts in space. Not with Harris's Gene Krantz in charge, they won't! That the rest of the story is a matter of record (they lived) is part of the problem and the interest of the film. Ron Howard's spectacular (arguably reactionary) mega-hit about the 1970 moon-shot sticks so faithfully to the version of events related in Lovell's book Lost Moon, that this may qualify as the most expensive drama-doc ever made. Certainly, the suspense is missing. As a result, Howard has to rig it: the tension comes from communication breakdown, the falling-out among the crew, and the battle on the ground between the boffins and the armed services. Sure, there are thrills and spills: the adrenaline rush of the well-mounted Saturn launch; the too-strange-not-to-be-true trajectory realignment as Bacon goes to manual; the race to fabricate a new filter from spare parts. Nevertheless, the film's low on dramatic scenes; furthermore, for a 'space movie', both the special effects and photography are surprisingly pedestrian. Where it scores is in subtly restating traditional notions of male heroism.
— WH, Time Out Film Guide
