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Thirteen Days, 2000

Starring: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp

Directed by: Roger Donaldson

Written by: David Self

Language: English, Russian

Country: USA

Runtime: 145 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:7.3

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The mood of Thirteen Days is thought provoking, contemplative, and disturbing. The plot centers around a head of state, leadership, and political unrest. It is a drama, historical, and period movie. In approach, Thirteen Days is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, at the White House. Thirteen Days is set in the USA. It happens in the 1960s. It is originally a true story. Thirteen Days is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed.

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A series of beautiful but devastating atomic explosions provides a vision of gorgeous, appalling destruction that hangs ominously over the political drama of Thirteen Days. It's October 16, 1962 and, it is not just another day at the office for Kenneth O'Donnell (Kevin Costner), the Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood). The President has just been handed a series of photographs taken from a U-2 spy plane over Cuba, showing deployed Soviet missile launchers capable of firing medium-range ballistic missiles that could hit most major US cities within minutes.

Thirteen Days is a vivid dramatization of what happened in the Kennedy White House during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Seen through the eyes of O'Donnell, it is a close-up view of President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (Steven Culp), as they try to handle a crisis that has many of their closest advisors ready to wage what all feared might have been the ultimate war. The script, by David Self, is based on interviews, CIA documents, and White House tapes. Director Roger Donaldson captures the extraordinary tension in the White House as he brings to life every heart-stopping moment.