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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780634114
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
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: 2669
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 2001
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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:  -
I'd never heard of this movie until 10 days ago. I'd worn a red CCCP tee to work and one of the guys asked me, "What's the deal with the shirt?" We'd started talking and I'd brought up the subject of the Cuban Missile Crisis. My friend kept mentioning "13 Days". I'd asked him what the movie was about and he told me "The Cuban Missile Crisis"
At he time of the event I was eight years old and I remember it as if it were yesterday. People were, to say the very least, extremely frightened. ... Read More
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I saw this film years ago before Iraq War II and was surprised at how well the story was told.
The story follows the crisis from the perspective (generally) of special assistant to the president, Kenneth O'Donnell. This helps us to see things from an "outsider" point of view; that is, we see things inside, but we are not thinking at the level of the President, for instance. It is meant to help us have empathy towards the situation. The storytelling, however, works. You end up getting a sense ... Read More
Rating:  -
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.
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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: -
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.
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