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Apollo 13

1995 · Movie · 134 min

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Scores

  • IMDb7.7/10as of 2026-02-21
  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer96%as of 2022-11-29
  • Rotten Tomatoes average8.1/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic78/100as of 2025-06-16

What it is

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 13, by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.

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Genres
Adventure / Drama / Action / History
Original language
English

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