"Houston, We've had a problem."

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2019)

Based on the NASA mission, this movie follows the flight of the space shuttle Apollo 13. The movie is really heavy in way of emotional moments. It is rated PG because of the emotional intensity. One of the astronauts goes into space while he has a baby on the way and coming soon. His poor wife has to worry about what'll happen to her husband in space, but she can't worry too much because of the baby. One of those movies you have to watch again and again.
Although not recommended for children under 12, it's a spectacular recreation of actual events. There is a considerable amount of language and a couple questionable scenes that are easily fast forwarded through, but isn't really that bad. Parents of younger children may want to watch the movie first before letting their children watch it. For all the young kids watching the movie, there is no need to be fearful for the lives of the astronauts. Spoilers: they make it back to earth safely, just not quite in the way mission control would have liked them to. They are unable to land on the moon because of the oxygen tank explosion among other problems.
The screenplay is phenomenal. Every scene that the astronauts are weightless is real weightlessness. The director used the Vomit Comet to get the effect of being weightless. The shuttle that is used in the movie is inside the belly of the Vomit Comet, an airplane that NASA uses to train astronauts how to handle being weightless while in space. The weightless feeling only last 25 seconds out of a 65 second flight. The crew of the movie had to take multiple shots of the same scene to get enough for the movie. For the time period, these were high tech special effects and knowing that the actors are really weightless makes the movie even better. Most space movies in which the actors are in space, the weightless effect is made by using strings attached to the actors to move them in a weightless manner. It's rather interesting to watch a movie after seeing it once and knowing the second time that the astronauts are really weightless.