Word: hankses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apollo 13, based on Lovell's memoir of the mission, chronicles those hairy days and salutes the men who worked to keep a disappointment from becoming a catastrophe. Ron Howard's film pays tribute to the signal and endangered American virtues of individual ingenuity and team spirit. "It gives credit...
Led by Ed Harris as flight director Gene Kranz and Gary Sinise as Ken Mattingly, who was scrubbed from the mission two days before launch, the grunts of Mission Control are efficient and almost faceless, a Greek chorus busily computing solutions. The astronauts' wives, notably Marilyn Lovell (lustrous Kathleen Quinlan...
When a film makes more than $650 million at the box office, movie executives don't get as sick of it as ordinary people do. Which may explain why Paramount paid more than $1 million for the rights to WINSTON GROOM'S new book, Gump & Co., despite the fact that...
One may already be here: the quirky romance While You Were Sleeping opened strongly in the U.S. just before the summer rush, and could earn $60 million to $80 million. But Hollywood counts on big stars, muscular action, high concept-and Disney cartoons-to bring in the really serious money...
Certain film genres never seem to lose their magical ability to entertain: the screwball romance, the film noir, and of course, the funny cop-dog movie. We laughed with Jim Belushi in "K-9," we cried with Tom Hanks in "Turner and Hooch," and this week we sweat with Chuck...