Apollo 13

“With no frills and no commentary, Howard and company have made the kind of absorbing thriller we have in mind when we wistfully sigh, “They don’t make movies like they used to.”
―San Francisco Examiner
This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth’s orbit. However, when an oxygen tank explodes, the scheduled moon landing is called off. Subsequent tensions within the crew and numerous technical problems threaten both the astronauts’ survival and their safe return to Earth.