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- APOLLO 13 (1995) Director: Ron Howard. Writers: William Broyles, Jr., Al Reinert. Starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan. One of Howard’s most critically-acclaimed films, “Apollo 13” focuses on America’s third mission to put a man on the moon, a mission that was fraught with potential disaster when, en route to the moon, an explosion on board imperiled the mission and threatened to take the lives of the astronauts in the capsule.
- SPLASH (1984) Director: Ron Howard. Writer: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman. Starring Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy.
- COCOON (1985) Director: Ron Howard. Writer: Tom Benedek. Starring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Don Ameche, Steve Guttenberg. Howard hit a home run with young and senior audiences alike with this science-fiction heartwarmer with a geriatric twist.
- FROST/NIXON (2008) Director: Ron Howard. Writer: Peter Morgan, based on his play. Starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon. Howard’s biggest challenge in directing the film adaptation of Peter Morgan‘s Tony Award-nominated play was to make cinematic a story that was basically two guys sitting in a chair.
Aug 12, 2024 · Overall, Apollo 13 finds the right balance between historical accuracy and entertainment, with Howard deftly making changes to the story from seemingly insignificant to whole-scale...
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Nov 20, 2020 · We rank every Ron Howard movie ever made, from Solo: A Star Wars Story to Cinderella Man to Apollo 13 — and his latest, Hillbilly Elegy.
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Jul 15, 2024 · Ron Howard's space NASA epic, Apollo 13, is considered one of his greatest films. Does it hold up close to 30 years later?
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan. The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo ...
But Howard adds no additional side stories, no little parallel dramas, as a lesser director might have. This is a powerful story, one of the year’s best films, told with great clarity and remarkable technical detail, and acted without pumped-up histrionics.
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Jul 28, 2023 · Grady Bolding · July 28, 2023. Apollo 13. Almost thirty years since its release, Ron Howard’s film Apollo 13 remains a gripping and inspirational film. The dramatization of the infamous...
