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Tom Hanks month 2 – Splash
For this week’s look into Tom Hanks’s early career, I was split between this movie and Big. Both are comedies with a touch of romance. Both are also movies that helped propel him into stardom. As much as I remember … Continue reading
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True Story Movies 2: Apollo 13
One of the more fascinating aspects of the Cold War was the space race. The United States and the Soviet Union competed for years to see who could achieve various first in their spaceflight capabilities. This race began with ballistic … Continue reading
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Tagged academy award, apollo 13, astronauts, bafta, cgi, cold war, docudrama, ed harris, gary sinise, gene kranz, jack swigert, jim lovell, kansas cosmosphere and space center, kathleen quinlan, ken mattingly, kevin bacon, lost moon, marilyn lovell, movie review, movies, nasa, roger ebert, ron howard, rotten tomatoes, space race, space travel, sputnik 1, the moon, the rolling stone, tom hanks, true story movies, ussr
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