| Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures Production Brian Grazer, Producer
"Houston, we have a problem," came the laconic words from 205,000 miles away. Across the giant void of space, those words were the last thing that the engineers, scientists and mathematicians who comprised Mission Control wanted to hear. The crew of Apollo 13 was almost to the moon, and an explosion in space was causing them to lose oxygen, power and guidance. Suddenly, three men faced the prospect of dying as no man had died before. If Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert did not want to become some horrific, permanent rotating exhibit within the solar system, a daring rescue attempt that defied odds would have to be attempted. There were only four days to bring them back to Earth. A stunned and rapt populace from around the world watched in silence. Back on Earth at NASA's Mission Control, a race was on to save the astronauts from three potentially disastrous situations: suffocating if the oxygen ran out; freezing to death as a result of insufficient power to heat the spacecraft; or being poisoned by their own carbon dioxide exhalations because of an unusable filtering system. Even if they managed to survive, they could still be incinerated upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Ironically, all the high-tech equipment that got Apollo 13 into space was secondary. A mission about machines became a mission about character. While man had walked on the moon less than a year before - one of the defining moments of modern civilization - the truncated voyage of Apollo 13 would arguably turn out to be the finest hour in the history of space travel.
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APOLLO 13 is a suspenseful real-life thriller. This compelling human drama is about three men who exhibit extraordinary courage, faith and ingenuity and the hundreds more who worked around the clock to bring them back safely.
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