Apollo 13

Adventure, History

Tom Hanks	Jim Lovell
Bill Paxton	Fred Haise
Kevin Bacon	Jack Swigert
Gary Sinise	Ken Mattingly
Ed Harris	Gene Kranz
Kathleen Quinlan	Marilyn Lovell
Mary Kate Schellhardt	Barbara Lovell
Emily Ann Lloyd	Susan Lovell
Miko Hughes	Jeffrey Lovell
Max Elliott Slade	Jay Lovell

Director	Ron Howard
Producer	Brian Grazer; Michael Bostick
Writer	Al Reinert; William Broyles Jr.; Jim Lovell; Jeffrey Kluger
Cinematography	Dean Cundey

Apollo 13 is a movie based on the true story of of the Apollo 13 mission that was supposed to be the third to land on the moon. There was not much interest in space flights by know as they had happened before, so they were "regular." That all changed when in mid flight there is a major problem, and their chances of making it home are slim, there are ground teams working around the clock trying to give them a solution, and the flight was aired on national TV. Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) reports the problem to the command center in Houston by saying, "Houston, we have a problem."