Ep. #25 - Apollo 13 with Kendrick Wright, Burton Brown, Roseanne Caputi & Alex Robertson

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It’s back to the cosmos again on this week’s Fabulous Film and Friends where we will be analyzing Ron Howard’s triumphant 1995 historical drama Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan, the mighty Ed Harris, and a whole battalion of bespectacled bit players  in one of the most effective films of its ilk.

Returning to the panel once again, the screaming, desk-pounding emotional half of The Ken and Dante Show Youtube Channel, the Incredible Kendrick Wright. 

An IT specialist who was once served as the miracle worker of the West Park Plaza Payless Drugs where we worked together, a man  could fix anything, slap some shrink wrap on it and put it right back on the shelf after it was originally deemed defective, Salt Lake City’s own Burton Brown.

Here to provide the much needed female perspective in a male dominated world of  pocket protectors, clip on ties, and ring around the collar, and then we’ll talk about the movie! My sister, the one and only, Roseanne Caputi. 

And finally, a man who would have been perfect for the part of Finney, the grumpy Irish engineering instructor who tutors Ben Affleck on the finer points of the space shuttle ignition switch in a wacky deleted scene from Michael Bay’s Armageddon, Gordon Alex Robertson!  

But before the pre-launch countdown commences: the synopsis

Apollo 13 catalogs the events of the near fatal, aborted 1970 NASA moon mission which put the lives of astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert in serious peril after an electrical short in the wiring of the Odyssey Service Module’s oxygen tanks caused an explosion, nearly crippling the spacecraft. If it were not for the smarts, determination, and ingenuity of both the astronauts and the NASA staff at Houston Control, led by Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz, the mission surely would have ended in tragedy. As it was, a seemingly routine mission that the public at large wasn’t interested in became a nail-biting worldwide chapter in history as the NASA team worked tirelessly to ensure the flight crew returned home safely.

What's it all mean? Is it a deep movie? Is it a great movie?

Find out!