Apollo 131995

Stars: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Rating: PG
Runtime: 140 minutes

Produced a year before Ron Howard's film of the doomed space mission hit Hollywood, To the Edge and Back brings the real faces of the Apollo 13 saga to the forefront. Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise talk about the flight (Jack Swigert died in 1… more »

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Henry Hurt:
I, uh, I have a request from the news people.

Marilyn Lovell:
Uh-huh?

Henry Hurt:
They're out front here. They want to put a transmitter up on the lawn.

Marilyn Lovell:
Transmitter?

Henry Hurt:
Kind of a tower, for live broadcast.

Marilyn Lovell:
I thought they didn't care about this mission. They didn't even run Jim's show.

Henry Hurt:
Well, it's more dramatic now. Suddenly people are...

Marilyn Lovell:
Landing on the moon wasn't dramatic enough for them - why should NOT landing on it be?

Henry Hurt:
Look, I, um, I realize how hard this is, Marilyn, but the whole world is caught up in this, it's historic-...

Marilyn Lovell:
No, Henry! Those people don't put one piece of equipment on my lawn. If they have a problem with that, they can take it up with my husband. He'll be HOME... on FRIDAY!

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