Thirteen Days (Infinifilm Edition)
starring: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll, Drake Cook, Lucinda Jenney
directed by: Roger Donaldson
directed by: Roger Donaldson
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For thirteen extraordinary days in october 1962 the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. After the discovery of soviet weapons in cuba events and tension escalate between two military superpowers and within the white house.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 12/12/2006Starring: Kevin Costner Steven CulpRun time: 145 minutesRating: Pg13Director: Roger Donaldson
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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
For thirteen extraordinary days in october 1962 the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. After the discovery of soviet weapons in cuba events and tension escalate between two military superpowers and within the white house.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 12/12/2006Starring: Kevin Costner Steven CulpRun time: 145 minutesRating: Pg13Director: Roger Donaldson
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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- 13 DAYS
I WAS SENT THE WRONG ITEM.I ORDERED A DVD AND WAS SHIPPED A VHS.I CONTACTED THE SELLER 4 TIMES AND GOT NO RESPONSE.
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- COMPARE THE CUBAN CRISIS WITH IRAN-CONTRA
"Thirteen Days" re-created the Cuban Missile Crisis, elevating the Kennedys to virtual sainthood while painting Curt LeMay as an advocate for nuclear holocaust. It was a fantastic picture, like many of them, but in it is an interesting scene in which Kenny O'Donnell, played by Kevin Costner, tells a Navy plot to lie to LeMay about being shot at, because LeMay would supposedly have ordered a strike if he had been. The film paints this lie as the right thing to do because it advocates the Kennedy's ... Read More
Rating: - Thirteen Days
This is a great movie if you wish to get an overview of what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. It follows the political developments in the White House and how the Kennedy Administration wrestled with the problem of defusing the threat of igniting nuclear war between Russia and America.
Every movie has some bias, but if you wish to get an overall grasp of what the world faced at that time, this movie will help you understand it. You will come away with a greater appreciation of ... Read More
Rating: - Flawed ending
There are many things to admire in this well-ventilated political thriller. And some flaws, like Kevin Costner's New England accent. But I watch it all the time and I have only one criticism. The moment we have been waiting for for two hours, i.e. the Soviets finally agreeing to remove the missiles from Cuba in return for our pledge never to invade Cuba -- this moment, after all those scenes full of white knuckles, fear of disaster, anxiety -- this moment comes as the scratchy voice of a translator ... Read More
Rating: - 13 Days
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
- 13 DAYSI WAS SENT THE WRONG ITEM.I ORDERED A DVD AND WAS SHIPPED A VHS.I CONTACTED THE SELLER 4 TIMES AND GOT NO RESPONSE.
- COMPARE THE CUBAN CRISIS WITH IRAN-CONTRA"Thirteen Days" re-created the Cuban Missile Crisis, elevating the Kennedys to virtual sainthood while painting Curt LeMay as an advocate for nuclear holocaust. It was a fantastic picture, like many of them, but in it is an interesting scene in which Kenny O'Donnell, played by Kevin Costner, tells a Navy plot to lie to LeMay about being shot at, because LeMay would supposedly have ordered a strike if he had been. The film paints this lie as the right thing to do because it advocates the Kennedy's ... Read More
- Thirteen DaysThis is a great movie if you wish to get an overview of what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. It follows the political developments in the White House and how the Kennedy Administration wrestled with the problem of defusing the threat of igniting nuclear war between Russia and America.
Every movie has some bias, but if you wish to get an overall grasp of what the world faced at that time, this movie will help you understand it. You will come away with a greater appreciation of ... Read More
- Flawed endingThere are many things to admire in this well-ventilated political thriller. And some flaws, like Kevin Costner's New England accent. But I watch it all the time and I have only one criticism. The moment we have been waiting for for two hours, i.e. the Soviets finally agreeing to remove the missiles from Cuba in return for our pledge never to invade Cuba -- this moment, after all those scenes full of white knuckles, fear of disaster, anxiety -- this moment comes as the scratchy voice of a translator ... Read More
- 13 DaysI'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
