Interesting. The movie focuses on the problems that this mission had, basically on how to get them home safely. I liked the process of coming up with ideas to solve every problem that presented itself. I don’t know if it went exactly like that, but my favourite thing was how a team of people brought a bunch of stuff in a room saying ‘this is all they’ve got up there, so we must use this to find a solution” and they came up with something they had to make in order to make the air breathable. I liked and admired that bit more than anything. If it really happened, I wonder who were those brilliant people.
In this world, people only care about the surface, the face at the front, and don’t value enough all the brilliant work that goes on behind the scene.
The plot is this: Astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) prepare to go to the moon on the Apollo 13. Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise) is not allowed to go because the doctor says he might get ill soon, so Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) goes instead. The media don’t care at all about this mission, because it’s not the first one, because there’s nothing “big” to report, until there’s an explosion up there causing a lot of damage. All of a sudden three people risk dying in space and all the media are suddenly so interested in them.
The three of them have to face a difficult situation, many problems, the air becoming unbreathable, the temperature dropping till freazing point, no energy left in the shuttle, lots of big problems. The people at Houston work to find a solution to each problem, to keep them alive until they can attempt to get them back.
At the end, they manage to get to Earth alive, and everyone cheers.
In the movie there are also:
Ed Harris as Gene Kranz, some kind of boss telling everyone to find solutions quickly.
Kathleen Quinlan as Mrs Lovell, the stay-at-home wife who worries for him.
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