The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Visual Effects
The attack sequence still holds up—practical pyrotechnics, baby!
Production
Bay built full-scale battleships just to blow them up real good.
Costume
Kate Beckinsale's nurse whites launched a thousand Halloween costumes.
Director
Michael Bay
Ben Affleck
Rafe McCawley
Josh Hartnett
Danny Walker
Kate Beckinsale
Evelyn Johnson
William Lee Scott
Billy
Ewen Bremner
Red
Alec Baldwin
Doolittle
Jaime King
Betty
Catherine Kellner
Barbara
Jennifer Garner
Sandra
Jon Voight
President Roosevelt
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Dorie Miller
Michael Shannon
Gooz
Matthew Davis
Joe
Mako
Admiral Yamamoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Doris Miller was a mess attendant who manned an anti-aircraft gun during the attack; Cuba Gooding Jr.'s portrayal was the first major Hollywood recognition of his heroism.
Critics roasted the love triangle, but it actually mirrors the real-life wartime phenomenon of 'quickie marriages' before deployment—Hollywood just made it extra horny.
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