Apollo 13 DVD 1995 / Directed by Ron Howard / Starring: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris

UPC 5996051040193

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN Germany

AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 5.1

SUBTITLES: Hungarian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, English HOH

Total Runtime: 135 minutes

English Summary:

In July 1969, astronaut Jim Lovell hosts a house party where guests watch Neil Armstrong's televised first human steps on the Moon. Afterwards Lovell, who had orbited the Moon on Apollo 8, tells his wife Marilyn that he intends to return to the Moon to walk on its surface.

Three months later, as Lovell conducts a VIP tour of NASA's Vertical Assembly Building, his boss Deke Slayton informs him that because of problems with Alan Shepard's crew, his crew will fly Apollo 13 instead of 14. Lovell, Ken Mattingly, and Fred Haise train for their new mission. A few days before launch, Mattingly is exposed to German Measles, and the flight surgeon demands his replacement with Mattingly's backup, Jack Swigert. Lovell resists breaking up his team, but relents when Slayton threatens to bump his crew to a later mission. As the launch date approaches, Marilyn has a nightmare about her husband getting killed in space, but goes to the Kennedy Space Center the night before launch to see him off.

On April 11, 1970, Flight Director Gene Kranz gives the go-ahead from Houston's Mission Control Center for the Apollo 13 launch. As the Saturn V rocket climbs through the atmosphere, a second stage engine cuts off prematurely, but the craft reaches its Earth parking orbit. After the third stage fires to send Apollo 13 to the Moon, Swigert performs the maneuver to connect the Command/Service Module Odyssey to the Lunar Module Aquarius and pull it away from the spent rocket.

Hungarian Summary:

1970. április 11-én az Apollo 13 három fős legénysége nekivág a végtelen világűrnek. Küldetésük nem mindennapi: leszállni a Holdra. A kilövés simán megy, a mérnökökből, tudósokból és matematikusokból álló houstoni irányító központ felügyeli a repülést. Az űrhajó majdnem eléri a Holdat, amikor a következő "Houston, baj van!" A három űrhajóst egy hibás alkatrész miatt bekövetkezett robbanás megfosztja az oxigéntől, az energiától, és a hajó irányításának lehetőségétől. A tét többé már nem a Hold elérése, hanem az életben maradás.

Cast / Szereplők:

Apollo Flight Crew:

• Tom Hanks as Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell: Jim Lovell stated that before his book Lost Moon was even written, the movie rights were being shopped to potential buyers^[5] and that his first reaction was that Kevin Costner would be a good choice to play him.^[5][6] However, by the time Howard acquired the director's position, Costner's name never came up in serious discussion, and Hanks had already been interested in doing a film based on Apollo 13. When Hanks' representative informed him that a script was being passed around, he had the script sent to him.^[5] John Travolta was initially offered the role of Lovell, but declined.^[7]
• Kevin Bacon as Apollo 13 backup Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert
• Bill Paxton as Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise

Mission Control:

• Gary Sinise as Apollo 13 prime Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly: Sinise was invited by Howard to read for any of the characters, and chose Mattingly.^[5]
• Ed Harris as White Team Flight Director Gene Kranz: Harris described the film as "cramming for a final exam." Harris described Gene Kranz as "corny and like a dinosaur", but respected by the crew.^[5] Apollo 13 would be Harris' second space travel-themed movie; he had starred as pioneering astronaut John Glenn in 1983's The Right Stuff.
• Chris Ellis as Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton
• Joe Spano as "NASA Director", a composite character loosely based on Chris Kraft
• Marc McClure as Black Team Flight Director Glynn Lunney
• Clint Howard as White Team Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager (EECOM) Sy Liebergot
• Ray McKinnon as White Team Flight Dynamics Officer Jerry Bostick
• Todd Louiso as White Team Flight Activities Officer
• Loren Dean as EECOM John Aaron
• Jim Meskimen as White Team Telemetry, Electrical, EVA Mobility Unit Officer (TELMU)
• David Andrews as Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad
• Christian Clemenson as Flight Surgeon Dr. Charles Berry
• Ben Marley as Apollo 13 backup Commander John Young
• Brett Cullen as Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) 1
• Ned Vaughn as CAPCOM 2
• Carl Gabriel Yorke as SIM (Simulator) 1
• Arthur Senzy as SIM 2

Civilians:

• Kathleen Quinlan as Marilyn Gerlach Lovell, Jim's wife
• Xander Berkeley as Henry Hurt, a fictional NASA Office of Public Affairs staff member^[8]
• Tracy Reiner as Haise's wife Mary
• Mark Wheeler as Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 Commander
• Larry Williams as Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot
• Mary Kate Schellhardt as Lovell's older daughter Barbara
• Max Elliott Slade as Lovell's older son James (Jay), who attended military school at the time of the flight
• Emily Ann Lloyd as Lovell's younger daughter Susan
• Miko Hughes as Lovell's younger son Jeffrey