Any one see 'Thirteen Days' on cable last night? (Cuban Missile Crisis movie)

[pinto]

I thought of burning it on a disc for the White House Press Secretary, but thought that would be 'futile'.

:evilgrin:

Thirteen Days (2000)

Overview

Director:
Roger Donaldson

Writers (WGA):
David Self (written by)
Ernest R. May (book)

Release Date:
12 January 2001 (USA)

Tagline:
You'll Never Believe How Close We Came

Plot Outline:

The film is set during the two-week Cuban missile crisis in October of 1962, and it centers on how President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and others handled the explosive situation.

Cast

Shawn Driscoll ... U-2 Pilot

Kevin Costner ... Kenny O'Donnell
Drake Cook ... Mark O'Donnell
Lucinda Jenney ... Helen O'Donnell

Caitlin Wachs ... Kathy O'Donnell
Jon Foster ... Kenny O'Donnell, Jr.
Matthew Dunn ... Kevin O'Donnell
Kevin O'Donnell ... NPIC Photo Interpreter
Janet Coleman ... Evelyn Lincoln

Bruce Thomas ... Floyd

Stephanie Romanov ... Jacqueline Kennedy

Bruce Greenwood ... John F. Kennedy
Frank Wood ... McGeorge Bundy
Dakin Matthews ... Arthur Lundahl
Liz Sinclair ... Kenny's Assistant #1


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146309/

[williesgirl]

1. Yes, it's good and supposedly pretty factual. I'd seen it before but watched again. My brother was

in the Air Force at SAC Command Center during all this. My parents were going crazy. I was in high school and the entire school was watching every move with high interest level. Many of those classmates ended up fighting in Vietnam and didn't come home.

[EV_Ares]

2. I watched it with Dana and explained it to her, n/t.

[pinto]

6. LOL.

[warren pease]

15. Was that, like, kind of like that Bay of, like, Pigs thing?

[Cooley Hurd]

3. I've seen it several times, and it has shaped how I view the Military Industrial Complex...

...to this day. Curtis LeMay lives...:(

[maveric]

4. Great movie but a BAD Boston accent by Costner.

Greenwood did good job at playing JFK too.

[pinto]

5. Yeah, the accent was labored.

Agree about Greenwood's take on the President.

I remember those first few days...and the stone cold silence as we watched JFK announcing the blockade on TV.

[Ishoutandscream2]

14. Does a bad southern accent too

Not a very good actor, imo.

[ThomWV]

7. Maybe Dana Perino caught it, might enlighten the little twit.

[madokie]

8. I didn't see it but I damn sure remember living it like it was yesterday

duck and cover, hide and shhhit

[sarge43]

9. Yup. Some things you don't forget.

"This base may be a target. Due to insufficient warning, there will be no evacuation. If there is an attack and you survive, you are still members of the armed forces and will conduct yourselves accordingly." First Sergeant's briefing to a bunch of teenage trainees including yours truly.

[pinto]

12. I mainly remember the silence. We watched the announcement as a family.

3 generations of New England Irish in front of a black and white set, watching a 'local' President lay down a gauntlet.

Our trust in JFK was unquestioned, but the enormity of the possibilities were clear.

Remember my grandmother muttering, "Jack, you better be right" and leaving the room.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. I remember being locked in our barracks and marched to chow by MPs.

Just in case any of us got sane and decided being fried wasn't such a good idea.

Our planes had been junked, we were about to be TransPac'd to Japan, the other squadrons had been scattered and we were on "alert".

It was about that time that I began thinking that entrusting the world to "leaders" was kind of a stupid concept.

[SharonAnn]

17. Let's also remember, it turned out later they already had the missiles installed!

The situation was even more serious than JFK knew at the time.

And, remember, he didn't start bombing, he didn't decide to invade, he just blockaded Cuba.

And Kruschev blinked first.

It really could've been nuclear war, thank God and JFK that it wasn't.

[NanceGreggs]

10. I'm sure that if official WH spokes-hairdo Dana saw it ...

... she's still trying to figure out how a Canadian, Bruce Greenwood, was able to become a US president.

I'll bet she's been Googling all day ...

[pinto]

16. LOL. Reality's never been their forte, has it?

[Bitwit1234]

11. And what burns my ass up is the dumb ass bunch in this country

say Reagan was our best president. If it had not been for JFK they wouldn't have had a USA for Reagan to be president of.

[Lisa]

18. for a glimpse of how the Bushies might have handled it ...

This was written by a friend of mine ...


"If you know anybody wants a used Cabinet, I got one I'm willin' to let go cheap. And I ain't talkin' about furniture, neither.

'Coupla weeks ago, I seen 13 Days, that Cuban Missile Crisis movie, for the second time. I didn't remember nothin' from the first time, which was just after my inauguration, 'cause some genius thought it'd be clever to invite Teddy Kennedy and his family over for dinner and a movie. It was 'sposed to be a cymbal a' my reachin' out."

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