Rating: PG13
Genre:
War
Theatrical Release: 05/25/2001(USA)
Release Date: 12/04/2001
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DTS/5.1/THX
Run Time: 183 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity, War Violence
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
At the time of its release, this lavish period war drama from hyperkinetic director
Michael Bay became the most expensive motion picture ever green-lighted by a studio.
Ben Affleck stars as Rafe McCawley, a military pilot stationed under Jimmy Doolittle (
Alec Baldwin) in New Jersey, along with his best friend from childhood, Danny Walker (
Josh Hartnett). Rafe is chomping at the bit to get involved in World War II, but America has not entered the conflict, so he is forced to fight on loan to the Royal Air Force in Britain, leaving behind his beautiful girlfriend Evelyn (
Kate Beckinsale). After Rafe goes overseas, both Danny and Evelyn are transferred to the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where word arrives that Rafe has been killed in action. A grief-stricken Evelyn and Danny become romantically attached, a situation that becomes a lit powder keg when Rafe suddenly reappears, having survived his ordeal in the European war. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor puts the romantic triangle on hold, as the best friends are ordered to undertake a top-secret and highly dangerous retaliatory mission to bomb Tokyo, once again under the command of Doolittle. Although the trio of leads are entirely fictional,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Tom Sizemore, and
Jon Voight (as FDR) co-star in the roles of real-life historical figures.
Pearl Harbor is based on a script by
Randall Wallace, writer of
Braveheart (1995) and
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). Taking a page from the production history of
James Cameron's
Titanic (1997), many of the actors and filmmakers involved with
Pearl Harbor deferred their usual salaries until the film "broke even" at the box office.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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An Unforgettable Chapter of the 20th Century.
Filmmakers Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay along with Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale and Cuba Gooding, Jr. and a star-studded cast star in this dramatic re-enactment of a day which will live in infamy when the Japanese attacked and destroyed the U.S. Pacific fleet and U.S. Army bases at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. An atrocity that plunged the United States into World War II. The movie won an Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing. Also starring Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Garner, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Catherine Kellner, Mako, Dan Aykroyd, Peter Firth, Ted McGinley, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, William Lee Scott, John Fujioka, Scott Wilson, James Saito, Colm Feore and Michael Shannon.
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