Thirteen Days (Infinifilm Edition)
by Roger Donaldson
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Actor: Bruce Greenwood, Drake Cook, Kevin Costner, Lucinda Jenney, Shawn DriscollDirector: Roger Donaldson
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Kevin Costner
Producer: Armyan Bernstein
Producer: Ilona Herzberg
Producer: Lope V. Juban Jr.
Writer: David Self
Writer: Ernest R. May
Writer: Philip D. Zelikow
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-07-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
DVD Reviews of Thirteen Days (Infinifilm Edition)
DVD Review: 13 DAYS
Summary: 1 Stars
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.DVD Review: COMPARE THE CUBAN CRISIS WITH IRAN-CONTRA
Summary: 5 Stars
"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 position, which was to maintain level heads and a calm demeanor. However, in 1987 Ollie North was excoriated by the Left for lying about the funding of anti-Communist guerrillas, which was Reagan's position. Funny about that.DVD Review: Thirteen Days
Summary: 5 Stars
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 having had a strong American adminstration in the White House willing to stand up to the military machine of the day.
During an interview Fidel Castro had a few years ago, he said that had American forces landed on Cuban beaches, he would have retaliated with nuclear force. Knowing that, you will appreciate this movie even more.
DVD Review: Flawed ending
Summary: 5 Stars
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 off-camera, "The Soviet Union has agreed..." and a quick shot of some tickertape.
After this moment, which we hardly notice, everyone is breathing a sigh of relief, the cabinet is congratulating Kennedy, Kevin Costner is saying "Every day the sun comes up says something about us" -- the huge drama and suspense is finally over, and we didn't really see the most dramatic moment of the story. It flashed by too quickly for us to notice.
Otherwise, a good movie.
DVD Review: 13 Days
Summary: 5 Stars
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. I remember a Nike missile being set up at the corner of Main and Center Streets in my little town.
I've just finished reading a book called "One Minute To Midnight" by Michael Dobbs (2008) which I'd found absolutely fascinating. Research materials for the book included the latest declassified materials concerning the Cuban Missile Crisis. Friend who served in the military at the time always hold their thumb and index finger about one-eighth of an inch apart while saying, "We were THIS close to global nuclear war."
After reading "One Minute To Midnight" I now say to them, while hold up my hand with my thumb and index finger touching, "No. We were THIS close to the extinction of life as we know it on planet Earth."
I found 13 Days an absolutely absorbing movie with great acting. Overall I find the movie to be historically accurate given research materials available at the time the movie was made. Reading "One Minute To Midnight" absolutely enhanced the viewing of the movie for me and I found that newly revealed details in the book did in no way diminish the events depicted in the movie.
Much has been said about Kevin Costner's character but I found that the character served as a vehicle to link much of the events depicted and to provide perspective. I would not only highly recommend this movie but the book "One Minute To Midnight" as well.
The only thing that I find would have mad the movie better would have been the inclusion of Krushchev and Castro, which would have provided an all-inclusive presentation of events that led the world to the brink of nuclear war.
As it stands the movie is a superb presentation of events that transpired on the American side when the Doomsday Clock was poised to strike midnight.Thirteen Days (Infinifilm Edition)
Description of Thirteen Days (Infinifilm Edition)
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 Video Release Date: 12/12/2006 Starring: Kevin Costner Steven Culp Run time: 145 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Roger DonaldsonWhen 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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