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Apollo 13
Directed by Ron Howard
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy. From TMDB
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Apollo 13 is a 1995 drama history film, directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon.
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60 of 255 · most liked firstJames Lovell dies at 97. He commanded the troubled Apollo 13 spacecraft and was played by Tom Hanks in a Hollywood film. He was one of my childhood heroes. I grew up in that exciting Apollo/NASA era...and had lots of astronaut related toy stuff. RIP, Commander Lovell.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Apollo 13 with my oldest and when the German scientist came on screen I stopped the movie to tell her about Operation Paperclip. If you know me or my work you know I’ve been waiting for this moment since I took her home from the hospital
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight in the December Comfort Watches: Apollo 13, perhaps the best film ever for competent people doing competent things competently, both on screen and off of it: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/29/t...
positive · AI labelView post →RIP Jim Lovell, who flew to the moon twice but never landed and managed to bring home the crippled Apollo 13 in a remarkable mission later immortalized on film by Ron Howard and Tom Hanks. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/s...
neutral · AI labelView post →11yo: Nobody knows the SECOND guy who landed on the Moon. Me: Buzz Aldrin 11yo: No, I mean the second trip. Me: ... well... Jim Loville commanded Apollo 13... 11yo: See. Me: GIVE ME A SECOND! ... 11yo: SEE Me: Goddamn it Ron Howard, make the fucking Apollo 12 movie already.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Apollo 13 with two of my sons. The movie is almost over, & their brother walks into the room and asks, “So, what’s this movie about?” Without looking up, the 10 year old says, “It’s about a man who can’t pee in space.” I mean, I didn’t think that was the main plot, but I could be wrong.
neutral · AI labelView post →Glad the Apollo 13 movie is getting reruns lately. This scene is even more moving today: right, Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell; left, cameo appearance by actual Jim Lovell (1928 Mar 25 - 2025 Aug 7).
neutral · AI labelView post →Just quietly thinking about how, when it came out, “Apollo 13” felt like a period piece of a long-ago time and the equivalent movie today would be set in the distant year of 1999.
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Jim Lovell Portrayed brilliantly by Tom Hanks in the 1995 film Apollo 13
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Apollo 13’ Filmmakers Ron Howard & Brian Grazer Pay Tribute To Jim Lovell: “A True American Hero” deadline.com/2025/08/apol...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tom Hanks. Ed Harris. Bill Paxton. Gary Sinise. Kevin Bacon. What a cast Ron Howard has assembled to tell the story of Apollo 13 (1995). 30 today 🥳 My sons found it hard to believe that it's adapted from a true story. Great starting point for talking to kids about astrophysics, history, science...
positive · AI labelView post →The Hollywood Reporter just published a nice oral history of Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995) by @aaroncouch.bsky.social I recommend that all fans of this film read this article, but in the meantime, here are some good quotes. 🖖 1/18
neutral · AI labelView post →And also, 'Houston, we’ve had a problem' (misquoted in the movie 'Apollo 13'
neutral · AI labelView post →In the movie "Apollo 13", Tom Hanks, portraying astronaut Jim Lovell, salutes the real Jim Lovell, who makes a cameo appearance as the captain of the recovery ship, USS Iwo Jima. RIP Jim Lovell 1928-2025
neutral · AI labelView post →Farewell to NASA mechanical engineer Ed Smylie, whose lifesaving ingenuity was immortalized in a memorable sequence in the 1995 film “Apollo 13.”
neutral · AI labelView post →As Apollo 13 celebrates its 30th anniversary with a theatrical re-release in IMAX, Ron Howard reflects on Billy Wilder’s praise for the film. Check out our full conversation with Howard and producer Brian Grazer on YouTube: boxd.it/baw
neutral · AI labelView post →APOLLO 13 was released 30 years ago today. One of the most popular films of Tom Hanks, and a huge hit on its release, the tale of how the film came to the screen is worthy of the extraordinary real life mission… 1/36
neutral · AI labelView post →Apollo 13 but with measles would not have made as good of a movie imo
positive · AI labelView post →Without saying Apollo 13, fav Tom Hanks Film?
neutral · AI labelView post →Filming Apollo 13 (1995): Lunar Module & Command and Service Module, models With visual effects director of photography Erik Nash (Armageddon, Red Planet, Star Trek: Nemesis).
neutral · AI labelView post →Apollo 13 should count as a submarine movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Haven’t figured out how to fly in the Sky of Blue here. Actor from Pop culture Film&TV (Mommie Dearest,T2, Air Force One, Apollo 13,Gatacca,Shanghai Noon - 24, Nikita, The Walking Dead) to Indie Art Film (Sid & Nancy, SAFE, Leaving Las Vegas, Candyman, and a couple hundred others:).🤷🏻😅✌️LibDem 4 evr
neutral · AI labelView post →Made for an incredible scene in the movie Apollo 13 that actually inspired one of my kids to pursue a career in engineering.
positive · AI labelView post →Apollo 13 (1995) In order to be able to film inside the cramped spaces of the Odyssey Command Module and the Aquarius Lunar Module, the walls were, of course, removable. Fortunately, the movie wasn't actually filmed in space.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was sad to hear that Jim Lovell died. The movie Apollo 13 may have provided an insight into how brave and skilful he was, but my feeling is that the actual events, an extremity only those three humans had experienced, were even worse. A real hero.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm rewatching Apollo 13 in honor of Jim Lovell. This is a damn good movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Astronaut Jim Lovell, whose Apollo 13 story became a blockbuster movie starring Tom Hanks, died at Thursday at age 97.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hello, fellow persons. This new movie Apollo 13 was amazing. I am so glad to be your 1995 film watching contemporary. (Dug the hell out of it.) Onto Kiss Kiss Bang Bang for "movies Hillary somehow never saw, let's fix it."
positive · AI labelView post →I'm a big fan of the movie Apollo 13, and found out today that director Ron Howard did not want to cast his mother as Jim Lovell's mother - she read well for the role, but he thought she looked too young. So she turned around and pulled out her dentures. Got the part. And we got this:
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Jim Lovell, Astronaut, USN (1928-2025) From "Apollo 13", Jim Lovell cameos with Tom Hanks, who played him in the movie. 📸Universal Studios
neutral · AI labelView post →The last 4 movies I watched... Apollo 13 Nightcrawler Cinderella Man Terminator 2: Judgment Day Also watched: WALL-E Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/Iqj
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a film about the Apollo 13 mission. The best bit is when he says "we're just trying to get Amandaland"
neutral · AI labelView post →We got the author of Apollo 13 to come on to talk about the film Apollo 13, Tom Hanks, Jim Lovell, and the missions that made space exploration possible. Reckoning with Jason Herbert launches in 3...2...1 Share this if you like it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you know that APOLLO 13 is getting an IMAX rerelease this weekend? Well, now you do. Also, it’s still great. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Me: Hey, I found another Apollo 13 documentary to watch! It came out in 1995. Wife: That’s literally the movie. Me: 😐
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Apollo 13, fav Tom Hanks Film?
neutral · AI labelView post →Hmm. Apollo 13 is up there. Is Lincoln a dad movie?
positive · AI labelView post →I didn't really write a review on Letterboxd because why but the capsule is: top-shelf mustaches, utterly phony and ham-fisted conflict; a beat-by-beat real time procedural would have been much better. The film comes to life when it's in Apollo 13 mode. Poor Laura Linney.
neutral · AI labelView post →American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the hit movie 'Apollo 13', has died at the age of 97, NASA has said
neutral · AI labelView post →To honor the great Jim Lovell, who died today at 97, I recommend you watch both Apollo 13 and the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon.
positive · AI labelView post →Due to @jazzpomegranate.com I am now watching Apollo 13. I forgot just how excellent everyone in this movie is. Damn fine acting all around.
positive · AI labelView post →Lovell had a cameo in the Apollo 13 movie in the 1990s, as the skipper of the carrier that recovered the astronauts.
neutral · AI labelView post →The @sciencemuseum.org.uk Autumn IMAX schedule is on sale and Out of This World... The best space film ever, Apollo 13, showing on the film's 30th anniversary (so excited!) And then 70mm Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey and more. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Braveheart was basically a fantasy film. None of those things happened that way in actual history. Apollo 13 was much better
positive · AI labelView post →Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the Ron Howard movie Apollo 13 tonight. Such a good film. It just amazes me how they got those guys home safely, just so incredible actually.
positive · AI labelView post →Books to Films 📚=🎞️ Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (1994) by Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger was adapted in 1995 by Ron Howard. The film is technically & factually accurate. Some key changes include tension between the crew and Mission Control who remained calm. 🚀🌔⚠️ #filmsky #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →I screened Apollo 13 alongside Bill Clinton, Tom Hanks, John Glenn & Ron Howard in the now demolished White House movie theater My father's hands built the Apollo 13 command module
neutral · AI labelView post →Dad movie alert: if you have something called “universal movies” on cable, Apollo 13 is on. Ron Howard has a variety of sins and crimes against humanity to answer for, but Apollo 13 ain’t one of them.
positive · AI labelView post →"Houston, we have a problem." RIP Astronaut Jim Lovell, of Apollo 13. Played in the movie by Tom Hanks.
neutral · AI labelView post →we are watching Apollo 13 and I have not seen my son locked in on a movie like this in a while.
positive · AI labelView post →With the unfortunate passing of Jim Lovell the family movie tonight is Apollo 13. It was an incredible technological feat to bring those 3 astronauts safely home.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching APOLLO 13 (1995). Director: Ron Howard. Tom Hanks, Ed Harris. I used to live about one mile from Universal Studios in L.A., so I'd see the prop module from this movie frequently. True story: the cardboard standee of Kevin Bacon was into me. So hot! Rewatch. #filmsky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →I feel like we don't really talk about Apollo 13 as much as we should? That movie holds up!
positive · AI labelView post →Apollo 13 is a heist movie. in this paper I will
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry Apollo 13 is the only Tom Hanks movie I've ever heard of
neutral · AI labelView post →the crew of Artemis 2 are the first humans in history who have the opportunity to watch the 1995 film Apollo 13 in the most appropriate place
neutral · AI labelView post →Jim Lovell, the real Apollo 13 commander, makes a cameo in the film as a U.S. Navy captain greeting the astronauts upon recovery aboard the USS Iwo Jima. #TCMParty #Apollo13 ^JW (1/3)
neutral · AI labelView post →Apollo 13 also lost the Best Visual Effects Oscar to Babe — which was a sweet movie that did one thing quite well (for the time): animating the animals’ mouths. Apollo 13 had complex CG, animation, creative compositing using filmed elements, fluid dynamics, miniatures, etc. A13 was robbed.
positive · AI labelView post →Braveheart beat Apollo 13 for best picture. And I am going to piss off some people here, but Apollo 13 is a better movie.
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