Apollo 13: Book vs. Movie
Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995) adapts Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger's book Lost Moon. Tom Hanks plays Lovell as a damaged spacecraft turns a planned moon landing into a struggle to bring three astronauts home.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Jeffrey Kluger, Jim Lovell
- Year
- 1994
- Pages
- 432Buy book
- Audiobook
- Get audiobook
Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger reconstruct the Apollo 13 mission, from preparations for a lunar landing to the explosion that leaves three astronauts fighting to return to Earth. The account moves between the damaged spacecraft and mission control, explaining how crews improvise solutions with dwindling power and supplies. Lovell's experience also connects the emergency to the training and ambitions that precede it.
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Writer
- Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger, Al Reinert, William Broyles Jr.
- Year
- 1995
- Runtime
- 2 hr 14 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise
- Genre
- adventure, disaster, docudrama, drama, historical, survival
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Jim Lovell's chance to walk on the moon disappears when an explosion cripples Apollo 13 on its outward journey. The three astronauts must turn their lunar lander into a refuge while engineers in Houston devise ways to keep them alive with equipment already aboard. Every procedure must conserve the power and oxygen they will need to attempt the return to Earth.
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