The new movie thirteen days has an ambitious goalto recreate what was one of the most dramatic episodes of the cold war. Its up to presidential adviser kenny odonnell kevin costner and. Released in 2000, the movies tagline was youll never believe how close we came. A 1974 television movie called the missiles of october had already dealt with the subject and had been based on the kennedy book. Riveting account of the 1962 cuban missile crisis, when soviet weapons were discovered in cuba and the world was on the brink of war.
Kevin costner stars as top white house assistant kenneth. See more ideas about kevin costner, i movie and good movies. His son kevin, an internet tycoon, helped bankroll a buyout of beacon entertainment, which made the movie. Audiences surveyed by cinemascore gave the film a grade a. Kennedy, and was part of the group of kennedys close advisers dubbed. Thirteen days is a good movie about a profound moment in world history. In days, kevin costner delves into the life of john f. While there is widespread agreement that the missiles must not be. Thirteen days is the cuban missile crisis lesson you wish youd had in high school. After seeking to unravel a conspiracy regarding president john f.
Costner met castro for dinner and the pair discussed the cuban head of states reallife role in the crisis. The following day, the soviet leader sent a letter proposing that the ussr would dismantle its missiles in cuba if the americans removed their missile installations in turkey 3. It tells the story of the cuban missile crisis, a subject that, on its own, gives the film an impact. A few minor points prevented me from giving this movie 5 stars.
In october 1962, the kennedy administration struggles to contain the cuban missile crisis. Not only has the film perplexed historians by elevating odonnell. Adlai stevenson addresses the united nations on the cuban missile crisis duration. Watch thirteen days online stream full movie directv. Bbc news film costner meets castro for missile movie. Superlatives were invented for films like thirteen days.
It dramatizes the cuban missile crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the us political leadership. Kevin costner stars in this inside look at how the kennedy administration responded to the discovery of offensive soviet weapons. Thirteen days is a 2000 american historical political thriller film directed by roger donaldson. Throughout the day crisis, the president and his inner circle. This time, however, costner plays jfks personal political advisor, kenny odonnell, during the cuban missile crisis in october 1962. Thirteen days chronicles the 1962 cuban missile crisis, when american planes took photos that confirmed the existence of a secret soviet missile base under construction in cuba for nuclear missiles capable of striking the united states, provoking a day confrontation between the soviet union and cuba on one side and the u. Here is a general quiz on the cuban missile crisis. The cuban missile crisis trivia quiz cuban missile.
Kevin costner stars as top white house assistant kenneth p. Thirteen days captures the urgency, suspense and paralyzing. Odonnell was a close friend of president kennedy and his younger brother robert f. Kevin costner leads a talented cast in a thrilling retelling of the events of the cuban missile crisis which brings to life the tension of the time, including the real fear that nuclear war might break out, and the links to the wider international position, eg the status of berlin, which is so hard to grasp so many years later. And i think the cuban missile crisis, thirteen days, was the best managed foreign policy crisis of the last 50 years. The cuban missile crisis is the closest the human race has come to armageddon. This is a movie about the development of foreign policy in a crisis.
Finally, the thirteen days script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the kevin costner and bruce greenwood cuban missile crisis movie. Costner stars in this powerful historical drama about the 1962 cuban missile crisis. The film thirteen days, a hollywood account of the cuban missile crisis, purports to take audiences behind the scenes at the white house during the tense and critical period when nuclear war between the united states and the soviet union seemed not only possible but likely. Kennedys assassination in 1991s jfk, kevin costner opted to spend time alongside americas 35th commanderinchief in thirteen days, a gripping if factually suspect recounting of 1962s cuban missile crisis. The cuban missile crisis in historical perspective. But if you want to see a better movie regarding this issue, i would recommend the missiles of october. The actor kevin costner 1955 starred in a movie about the cuban missile crisis titled thirteen days. If you saw the new kevin costner movie, you will do well on it.
The world stood like a playing card on edge during the cuban missile crisis, he wrote. Kennedy from 1961 until kennedys assassination in november 1963. I know, i know, i still need to get the cast names in there and ill be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections. With kevin costner in the starring role, we wouldnt expect anything. Bruce greenwood, steven culp and dylan baker costar.
The 1962 cuban missile crisis was the closest weve come to a nuclear. The film used the transcripts of excomms deliberations as the basis. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of thirteen days. The lies thirteen days is as full of lies as robert kennedys homonymous book in which the film is mostly based. How accurate is days hollywoods take on the kennedys. Shawn driscoll, kevin costner, drake cook, lucinda jenney in october 1962, the kennedy administration struggles to contain the cuban missile crisis. Source g film thirteen days is a film that describes in detail the thirteen. For thirteen extraordinary days in october of 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. Thirteen days, costners latest film about the cuban missile crisis, is a politically correct movie. Based on ernest may and philip zelikows book, director roger donaldsons film takes. This partisan politicodrama focuses on the cuban missile crisis, with. The world stood like a playing card on edge during the cuban missile crisis, he wrote, while the superpowers played poker with humanity.
Despite borrowing the title, this movie was actually based on a different book called the kennedy tapes. Across the globe, people anxiously awaited the outcome of a harrowing political, diplomatic and military confrontation that threatened to end in an apocalyptic nuclear exchange between the united states and the soviet union. Kenneth patrick odonnell march 4, 1924 september 9, 1977 was an american political consultant and the special assistant and appointments secretary to president john f. Thirteen days takes place in the early days of october 1962, u. With kevin costner, bruce greenwood, shawn driscoll, drake cook. But here is kevin costner as youve never seen or heard him before, starring as an almostapocalyptic presidential assistant in the cuban missile crisis drama thirteen days. Hollywood actor kevin costner has met cuban leader fidel castro to watch and discuss his new movie thirteen days based on the 1962 cuban missile crisis. The film focuses on kennedy, his brother robert kennedy, and white house aide kenneth odonnell. Kennedy in new lines thirteen days 2000 synopsis in thirteen days, the power and peril of the american presidency is dramatically explored by director roger donaldson, who captures the urgency, suspense and paralyzing chaos of the cuban missile crisis. Kevin costner kenny odonnell, bruce greenwood john f. Jfk 1991 official trailer kevin costner, oliver stone thriller movie hd duration.
The rest of the lies come from some recent studies about the crisis made by serious historians. On the edge of war thirteen days explores adrenaline. Kevin costners massachusetts accent is glaringly bad speaking. Oddly though, like the moon landing another 1960s event of millennial importance it has faded from our. Us political leadership in the movie is a kevin costner is a movie star with bruce greenwood actually i. Thirteen days theatrical movie trailer 2001 youtube. Nine years later, kevin costner returned to the land of this countrys own camelot, in this docudrama about the cuban missile crisis of 1962 from the viewpoint of president kennedy and the men who served his administration. The world stood like a playing card on edge during the cuban missile crisis. Inside the white house during the cuban missile crisis by ernest may and philip zelikow.