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Thirteen Days
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*Thirteen Days* is a 2000 American historical drama and war film directed by Roger Donaldson. The cast includes Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, and Stephanie Romanov. Costner also served as a producer for the film, which was produced by Beacon Pictures and distributed by New Line Cinema and Netflix. The movie features Trevor Jones as the composer and Andrzej Bartkowiak as the director of photography.
The narrative focuses on the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis, depicting characters such as John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Curtis LeMay. The story is set in Florida, Washington, D.C., Cuba, and Connecticut. Filming took place in the Philippines, on the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., and at Alhambra and The Biltmore Los Angeles. The film runs for 145 minutes and was released on December 19, 2000, and March 22, 2001.
The film has received various review scores, including 7.2/10, 83%, and 67/100. It has a budget of 80,000,000 and generated revenue of 34,566,746. The tagline for the film is "You'll never believe how close we came."
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7.0The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
Cast
- Kevin Costner as Kenneth O'Donnell
- Bruce Greenwood as John F. Kennedy
- Steven Culp as Robert F. Kennedy
- Dylan Baker as Robert McNamara
- Michael Fairman as Adlai Stevenson
- Henry Strozier as Dean Rusk
Themes
- usa president
- politics
- atomic bomb
- cold war
- john f. kennedy
- based on true story
- threat
- cuban missile crisis
- diplomacy
- 1960s
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Roger Donaldson
- Written by
- David Self
- Based on
- The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis , by Ernest R. May , and Philip D. Zelikow
- Produced by
- Armyan Bernstein Peter Almond Kevin Costner
- Starring
- Kevin Costner Bruce Greenwood Steven Culp Dylan Baker
- Cinematography
- Andrzej Bartkowiak
- Edited by
- Conrad Buff
- Music by
- Trevor Jones
- Production company
- Beacon Pictures
- Distributed by
- New Line Cinema (United States and Canada), Buena Vista Film Sales (International)
- Release dates
- December 19, 2000 ( 2000-12-19 ) (premiere) January 12, 2001 ( 2001-01-12 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 145 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English, Russian, Spanish, Romanian
- Budget
- $80 million
- Box office
- $66.6 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- Romanian
- Main subject
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Director
- Roger Donaldson
- Composer
- Trevor Jones
- Producer
- Kevin Costner
- Production company
- Beacon Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Andrzej Bartkowiak
- Narrative location
- Oval Office
- Filming location
- Washington, D.C.
- Duration
- 145
- FilmAffinity ID
- 490007
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Thirteen Days.png
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- publication date
- 2000-00-00
- title
- Thirteen Days
- film editor
- Conrad Buff IV
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 67/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Thirteen Days is a 2000 American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. It dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the American political leadership. Kevin Costner stars as top White House assistant Kenneth P. O'Donnell, with Bruce Greenwood featured as President John F. Kennedy, Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Dylan Baker as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
While the film carries the same title as the 1969 book Thirteen Days by former attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, it is in fact based on the 1997 book The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow. It is the second docudrama made about the crisis, the first being 1974's The Missiles of October, which was based on Kennedy's book. The 2000 film contains some newly declassified information not available to the earlier production, but takes greater dramatic license, particularly in its choice of O'Donnell as protagonist. Thirteen Days premiered on December 19, 2000, before being released by New Line Cinema in the United States on January 12, 2001, with Buena Vista Film Sales releasing in other territories. The film received generally positive reviews from critics who praised the screenplay and performances of the cast but was a box-office bomb, grossing $66.6 million against its $80 million budget.
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