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Thirteen Days (2000)

Drama | 145 minutes
3,50 771 votes

Genre: Drama / History

Duration: 145 minuten

Alternative title: 13 Days

Country: United States

Directed by: Roger Donaldson

Stars: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood and Steven Culp

IMDb score: 7,3 (66.245)

Releasedate: 25 December 2000

Thirteen Days plot

"You'll never believe how close we came."

October 1962: America learns that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons on Cuba. President John F. Kennedy decides not to accept this, and is about to launch a military raid on Cuba. However, this could mean that the Soviet Union will take revenge on this in Europe. A third world war with the use of nuclear weapons seems inevitable.

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Kenneth O'Donnell

John F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert McNamara

Adlai Stevenson

McGeorge Bundy

Gen. Curtis LeMay

Ted Sorensen

Dean Acheson

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PCTERN

  • 257 messages
  • 203 votes

This is one of those movies that everyone should see in history classes in schools. The true story of the greatest "near miss" after World War II that almost led to World War III when America's military industrial complex had its way. Under a Bush or Trump, this would certainly have turned out differently. Although I sometimes have doubts about Trump, he seems more like a lost businessman with too many narcissistic traits, but certainly not an idiot.

Later, JFK paid a high price for his politically social attitude that made him one of the greatest heroes of modern times, as far as I'm concerned. From him also comes the quote 'Those who make a peaceful revolution impossible make a great revolution inevitable'.

The film fits nicely together and looks good.

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IH88

  • 9725 messages
  • 3182 votes

“The sun came up. Every day the sun comes up says something about us.”

Skillfully made film about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Long and very solid, but also surprisingly exciting and even exciting. Political biopics can be tough at times, but director Roger Donaldson manages to keep it interesting for two and a half hours.

Lots of dialogue and backroom politics, and the actors are perfectly cast. Costner, Greenwood as Kennedy and Culp as 'Bobby' Kennedy are the three actors who have to make sure that the personal and human side of the story also works, no matter how sentimental and patriotic it sometimes gets. Because Donaldson does not shy away from sentiment, but these kinds of actors ensure that it stays a bit within limits.

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kissyfur

  • 325 messages
  • 499 votes

Very mixed film. It is a mixture of a real actor's film, a thick layer of moralism, and a - to my taste - a thick sauce of religion against a background of historical events. That it takes place in the past has to be emphasized by scenes that start in black and white and then change to color or by pasting grainy defense archival material into it.

This resulted in me having to sit through one scene gritting my teeth, but the next I was still impressed by the acting or the beautiful props, or a line of dialogue. And then another cringe-inducing scene. Bruce Greenwood in particular does well, (even though he's not Kennedy) and Dylan Baker. Costner is hit and miss, and his exaggerated accent is often distracting.

And in between all this cycles the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Anyway, despite the criticisms it is a sufficient one, but the balance is in favor of hollywood and not to history,

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