Thirteen Days

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	Shawn Driscoll	U-2 Pilot
	Kevin Costner	Kenny O'Donnell
	Drake Cook	Mark O'Donnell
	Lucinda Jenney	Helen O'Donnell
	Caitlin Wachs	Kathy O'Donnell
	Jon Foster	Kenny O'Donnell / Jr.
	Mathew Dunn	Kevin O'Donnell
	Kevin O'Donnell	NPIC Photo Interpreter
	Janet Coleman	Evelyn Lincoln
	Bruce Thomas	Floyd
	Stephanie Romanov	Jacqueline Kennedy
	Bruce Greenwood	John F. Kennedy
	Frank Wood	McGeorge Bundy
	Dakin Matthews	Arthur Lundahl
	Liz Sinclair	Kenny's Assistant #1
	Colette O'Connell	Kenny's Assistant #2
	Karen Ludwig	Operator Margaret
	Audrey Rapoport	White House Operator #1
	Marliese Schneider	White House Operator #2
	Steven Culp	Robert F. Kennedy
	Dylan Baker	Robert McNamara
	Bill Smitrovich	Gen. Maxwell Taylor
	Henry Strozier	Dean Rusk
	Ed Lauter	Gen. Marshall Carter
	Michael Fairman	Adlai Stevenson

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Director	Roger Donaldson
Writer	David Self, Ernest R. May, Philip D. Zelikow
Producer	Marc Abraham, Peter O. Almond, Armyan Bernstein, Thomas A. Bliss, Kevin Costner, Michael De Luca, Paul Deason, Ilona Herzberg, Staci A. Hunter, Eli Jane, Lope V. Juban Jr., Mary Montiforte
Musician	Trevor Jones
Photography	Andrzej Bartkowiak

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Story Synopsis:
Thirteen Days is an account of the tense moments during a scant two weeks in 1962 that has become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bruce Greenwood is President John F. Kennedy who seeks the assistance of his brother Robert (Culp) and Special Assistant to the President, Kenny O’Donnell (Costner), as he attempt to stave off what could become full-scale nuclear war with the Soviet Union. It seems that U.S. spy planes have discovered an installation of missiles capable of carrying nuclear devices on Cuba, and the President must devise a plan to force the USSR to remove them. (Laurie Sevano)

DVD Picture:
The anamorphically enhanced 1.85:1 picture exhibits pleasing image quality, with sharp and finely detailed images throughout. The black-and-white scenes exhibit excellent grayscale quality, with deep blacks, bright whites, and pleasing contrast. The color scenes are well balanced, with accurate fleshtones, rich hues and deep, solid blacks. The scenes in Cuba exhibit a slightly desaturated appearance that stylistically contrast the more natural, well-balanced scenes in Washington DC. At times, the picture seems a bit soft, smeared, and wanting in clarity. Perhaps the softer look is intentional, but some viewers may find it bothersome. Some film grain is revealed, but there are no distracting artifacts. Edge enhancement is detected on occasion. There is no distracting pixelization, for a picture that should be quite satisfying throughout. (Suzanne Hodges)

Soundtrack:
The soundtrack presentation delivers a very compelling, immersive listening experience, typically through the music but also with the engagement of intense, dimensionally aggressive soundfields. The Dolby® Digital 5.1 audio is a remarkable production overall, and while this sound mix is often centered around the dialogue, the use of the music is very effective throughout in laying out the emotional foundation, both in terms of the music’s inherently engaging melodies and its spread throughout the listening space. Amid moments of relative quiescence, with dialogue being the primary element, the music just seems to float around the room, providing for a layer of very compelling expansiveness and immersion that captivates the listener. The Trevor Jones music score is an excellent recording (recorded and mixed by Simon Rhodes) and has a very nicely engrossing presence with tonal richness in the low-end. The dialogue is also a remarkable recording, delivering with excellent fidelity with only the caveat of sounding a bit more forward than suggested by the visuals. While much of the audio is of a relatively quiescent nature, and with a general balance of the soundstage toward the screen, the moments of dimensional aggressiveness are certainly superlative in their own right, such as the opening atomic bomb launch and detonation sequences, and numerous other moments that are interspersed between the dramatic sequences among government personnel. The soundstage becomes dramatically energized, with aggressive split surround engagement, and awesome, intense low-end output via the main channels and the .1 LFE, the latter of which is utilized prominently when appropriate. This soundtrack production is a very nice example of blending subtly and aggressively spacious soundfields to result in a presentation that should certainly be satisfying and fully engaging. With its excellent fidelity and superb utilization of dimension throughout, this soundtrack is definitely a strong recommendation. (Perry Sun)



This Disc Contains The Following WSR-Rated Superb Qualities:
Superb Music Score Recording Quality

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