Profoundly stirring

Rating: 9/10 (16 May 2002)

I lived through the real thing. Along with most of the country, I was uncertain whether we'd get Lovell, Haise, and Swigert home alive. Even though, like anybody who lived through the real events, or anybody who had read about them in recent history, I knew how the film would end, I still relived the tension of waiting for the spacecraft to return, knowing that nobody on the ground could do anything to save the astronauts that couldn't be accomplished by talking to them, and at the end, I relived the joy, triumph, and profound relief I felt as a child, when three good parachutes appeared, the spacecraft splashed down, and the crew was pulled out alive.
Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, and company did that good of a job.
Just writing this review is enough to start the tears flowing.