2000 Film "Thirteen Days"
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Kevin Costner's acting was passable, but his accent? Bleah. His track record at doing accents that aren't his own is not that great, IMHO. (Robin Hood, anyone? Oh wait, he didn't even TRY in that one, did he?)
After I saw this movie I thought a lot about how close we came to World War III back in '62. I suppose I could take a smidgen of comfort in the fact that if we had, then I would most likely never have been born, so I wouldn't have been around to witness the aftermath.
Although in '83 it hit a lot closer to home (and I was most definitely alive then). Two words: Stanislav Petrov.
After I saw this movie I thought a lot about how close we came to World War III back in '62. I suppose I could take a smidgen of comfort in the fact that if we had, then I would most likely never have been born, so I wouldn't have been around to witness the aftermath.
Although in '83 it hit a lot closer to home (and I was most definitely alive then). Two words: Stanislav Petrov.
I agree that Kevin Costner is pretty redundant as a character/actor in this movie, because he's clearly overshadowed by Greenwood and Culp. 
And since this is a Star Trek board, let's do a full Trek alumni rundown.
Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy / Christopher Pike (Star Trek XI)
Steven Culp - Robert F. Kennedy / Major Hayes (Enterprise - Season 3)
Tim Kelleher - Ted Sorenson / Lt. Gaines (TNG: "All Good Things..."), P'Chan (VOY: "Survival Instinct"), Lt. Pell (ENT: "The Communicator")
Boris Krutonog - Aleksandr Fromin / USS Excelsior helsman (Star Trek VI & VOY: "Flashback")
Bill Smitrovich - Maxwell Taylor / Michael Webb (DS9: "Past Tense", Parts 1 & 2)
Kevin Conway - Curtis LeMay / Kahless (TNG: "Rightful Heir")
Len Cariou - Dean Acheson / Admiral Janeway (VOY: "Coda")
Kelly Connell - Pierre Salinger / Sklar (VOY: "Rise")
Ed Lauter - Marshall Carter / Lt. Cmdr. Albert (TNG: "The First Duty")
And since this is a Star Trek board, let's do a full Trek alumni rundown.
Bruce Greenwood - John F. Kennedy / Christopher Pike (Star Trek XI)
Steven Culp - Robert F. Kennedy / Major Hayes (Enterprise - Season 3)
Tim Kelleher - Ted Sorenson / Lt. Gaines (TNG: "All Good Things..."), P'Chan (VOY: "Survival Instinct"), Lt. Pell (ENT: "The Communicator")
Boris Krutonog - Aleksandr Fromin / USS Excelsior helsman (Star Trek VI & VOY: "Flashback")
Bill Smitrovich - Maxwell Taylor / Michael Webb (DS9: "Past Tense", Parts 1 & 2)
Kevin Conway - Curtis LeMay / Kahless (TNG: "Rightful Heir")
Len Cariou - Dean Acheson / Admiral Janeway (VOY: "Coda")
Kelly Connell - Pierre Salinger / Sklar (VOY: "Rise")
Ed Lauter - Marshall Carter / Lt. Cmdr. Albert (TNG: "The First Duty")
Dakin Matthews - Arthur Lundahl / Admiral Patterson (VOY: "Relativity")
Peter White - John McCone / Ambassador Sharat (DS9: "Armageddon Game")
Chip Esten - Major Anderson / Dathan (VOY: "Remember"), Divok (TNG: "Rightful Heir")
Peter White - John McCone / Ambassador Sharat (DS9: "Armageddon Game")
Chip Esten - Major Anderson / Dathan (VOY: "Remember"), Divok (TNG: "Rightful Heir")
Excellent movie
One of my all time favorites.
Im a fan of JFK, history and Costner..so a real treat for me.
And Greenwood was the best JFK yet( Though Martin Sheen was ok in the mini-series also)
It was good that the film, for the most part, sticked to the facts
Hollywood tends to re-write history quite often in films...U-571 comes to mind
As for Trek connections go..Andrew Robinson(Garak)
Played JFK in an episode of Twilight Zone
One of my all time favorites. Im a fan of JFK, history and Costner..so a real treat for me.
And Greenwood was the best JFK yet( Though Martin Sheen was ok in the mini-series also)
It was good that the film, for the most part, sticked to the facts
Hollywood tends to re-write history quite often in films...U-571 comes to mindAs for Trek connections go..Andrew Robinson(Garak)
Played JFK in an episode of Twilight Zone
Andrew Robinson(Garak)
Played JFK in an episode of Twilight Zone
Oh yeah. One of the best TZ episodes ever!
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Wonderful movie. I loved it and Greenwood was awesome.
Thank you, I never saw it (Twilight Zone was broadcast only partially in Italy) and this episode was really great!
I saw it awhile back and thought it was a good movie. I was not alive then and don't really know a LOT about the Cuban Missle Crisis- so I can't vouch for its historical accuracy- however it was one of the few historical dramas that have held my attention.
Sadly, Lane Smith (who played the time traveller in that episode) died of Lou Gehrig's Disease a few years ago.
Though he never guest-starred on anything Trek, Michael Fairman (Adlai Stevenson) is probably well-known to a lot of folks here from his role as Adelai Niska on Firefly.
I agree with most people who've said it's a great movie. Very strong performances all around (I like Costner here a lot as well though I can't judge his accent), good production values and manages to maintain the tension throughout its runtime (which isn't short IIRC).
Usually, when I've just watched this movie I like watching "JFK" pretty soon afterwards. It's a completely different experience, obviously, but it's interesting in that both movies do portray rather different times (rather different on some levels, anyway). Plus it's kind of fun because Costner is in both.
Usually, when I've just watched this movie I like watching "JFK" pretty soon afterwards. It's a completely different experience, obviously, but it's interesting in that both movies do portray rather different times (rather different on some levels, anyway). Plus it's kind of fun because Costner is in both.
Didn't he play one of the vendors on the Promenade in a DS9 episode?
I really liked the movie - it was a more polished account of the events than the movie I watched in high school in 1987, entitled "The Missiles of October", which starred William DeVane as JFK and Martin Sheen as RFK, among others.
You really would have to try hard to mess up the source material - the Cuban Missile Crisis is a dramatic period in history.
You really would have to try hard to mess up the source material - the Cuban Missile Crisis is a dramatic period in history.
I'm not sure that's him. It's listed in his Wikipedia article and his credits on TV.com, but not in his IMDb credits, and the cast credits for "In the Hands of the Prophets" on Memory Alpha list a Michael Eugene Fairman as playing the Bajoran vendor who refuses to sell glop-on-a-stick to the O'Briens. Here's a screencap, and it's clear that this guy looks nothing like the Michael Fairman from Firefly and Thirteen Days.
A minor bummer, because with all the shows he's done over his long career, you'd think he'd have been tapped to guest on Trek at least once.
Not sure if it ever made it to the cinema here, but I decided to buy it and give it a go on dvd a while back. I enjoyed it
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