The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
Acting
Greenwood's JFK: exhausted, human, surprisingly restrained.
Direction
Donaldson makes meetings feel like action sequences.
Production
Pentagon sets so authentic you'll need clearance.
Director
Roger Donaldson
Kevin Costner
Kenneth O'Donnell
Bruce Greenwood
John F. Kennedy
Steven Culp
Robert F. Kennedy
Dylan Baker
Robert McNamara
Michael Fairman
Adlai Stevenson
Henry Strozier
Dean Rusk
Frank Wood
McGeorge Bundy
Kevin Conway
Gen. Curtis LeMay
Tim Kelleher
Ted Sorensen
Len Cariou
Dean Acheson
Bill Smitrovich
Gen. Maxwell Taylor
Shawn Driscoll
U-2 Pilot
Stephanie Romanov
Jacqueline Kennedy
Lucinda Jenney
Helen O'Donnell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real O'Donnell's children called the film 'pure fiction' regarding his role; JFK's actual tapes reveal he was barely in the room for key decisions.
Released months before the 2000 election, it accidentally became a meditation on presidential temperament that aged terrifyingly well.
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