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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780634114
ISBN: 078063411X
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 10, 2001
Running Time: 147 minutes
Sales Rank: 2869
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 2001
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Amazon.com:
When released in December 2000, Thirteen Days was pummeled for taking liberties with the facts of the Cuban missile crisis and smothering its compelling drama with phony Boston accents by its primary stars. More tolerant critics hailed it as one of the year's best films, and that's the opinion to believe for anyone who enjoys taut, intelligent political thrillers. For those too young to relate directly to the timeless urgency of the crisis that played out over 13 days in October 1962, Thirteen Days joins the classic TV treatment The Missiles of October (1973) as an intense and thought-provoking study of leadership under pressure.
The film (and costar-coproducer Kevin Costner) drew criticism for fictionally enhancing the White House role of presidential aide Kenneth O'Donnell, but while Costner's Boston accent may be grating, his fine performance as O'Donnell offers expert witness to the crisis, its nerve-wracking escalation, and the efforts of John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) and Robert F. Kennedy (Steven Culp) to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Russia. While Soviet missiles approach operational status in Cuba, director Roger Donaldson (who directed Costner in No Way Out) cuts to exciting U.S. Navy flights over the missile site, ramping up the tension that history itself provided. Donaldson's occasional use of black and white is self-consciously distracting, and he's further guilty of allowing a shrillness (along with repetitive, ominous shots of nuclear explosions) to invade the urgency of David Self's screenplay. Still, as Hollywood history lessons go, Thirteen Days is riveting stuff. You may find yourself wondering what might happen if reality presented a repeat scenario under less intelligent leadership. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - PROPAGANDA
This movie presents just a half of the truth.
Facts that weren't presented
1962
USA - 6000 of nuclear warheads.
USSR-300 of nuclear warheads.
As you can see USSR had just 5% of American nuclear arsenal.
In 1960 USA placed American middle range nuclear Missiles in Turkey. To answer this, USSR was forced to send Missiles to CUBA. After Cuban crisis, American Missiles from Turkey and soviet Missiles from Cuba were withdrawn. ... Read More
Rating:  - Outstanding film
Historical and New England accent accuracies aside, this was a fabulous cinematic endeavor.I'm no Kennedy fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I am now a Roger Donaldson fan, so put that in your piece pipe and smoke it.Gripping drama.Check it.
Rating: - Faked Up, But So What?
The Bahston accents are atrocious. The facts are changed. The historical roles inflated. Still, this isn't a documentary. It's a drama, and as such, it's pretty good. The script is relatively intelligent, and although it drops into melodrama in the family scenes of Kenny O'Donnell, it's better than the reviews would indicate. Well worth a rent. Just don't let the kids think this is how it really happened.
Rating: - Excellent Movie
This movie portrays the events in the white house during the cuban missile crisis.Excellent acting.Captivating even though we know how it plays out.If half the portrayal of JFK's actions and words is accurate I tip my hat to him for standing up to the military and saving a lot of lives.
Rating: - Gripping Historical Drama !
A well researched, gripping tale of the Cuban Missile Crisis told from the Americanviewpoint.
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