Pearl Harbor (2001) Movie Overview

Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American war film directed by Michael Bay. It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King and Jennifer Garner. It is a dramatic re-imagining of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base and the subsequent Doolittle Raid and was produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer. Some of its scenes were among the last to be filmed in Technicolor. The film received negative to mixed reviews from critics and the public, despite it becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 2001. The random article opens in Tennessee, 1923, on by the way two boys Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker are pretending to be fighting the Germans, until Danny’s father tells him to come home, and starts beating him because Rafe flew his father’s plane without permission. Rafe defends Danny by calling his father a “Dirty German”, Danny’s father countering by explaining that he fought the Germans in World War I. Now in the United States Army Air Corps and now First Lieutenants Rafe McCawley (Affleck) and Danny Walker (Hartnett) are experienced, reckless, but… Source

• Pearl Harbor Movie Details
• Director: Michael Bay
• Official Sites: Buena Vista [us], Official site [uk]
• Tagline: It takes a moment to change history. It takes love to change lives.
• Country: USA
• Run Time: 183 min | USA:184 min (director's cut)
• Genre: Action , Drama , Romance , War

• Cast Overview
• Ben Affleck as Capt. Rafe McCawley
• Josh Hartnett as Capt. Danny Walker
• Kate Beckinsale as Nurse Lt. Evelyn Johnson
• Cuba Gooding Jr. as Petty Officer Doris Miller
• Jon Voight as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Alec Baldwin as Lt. Col. James Doolittle

Pearl Harbor Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

Pearl Harbor (2001): On a sleepy Sunday morning in December as children played and families prayed, squadrons of Japanese war planes screamed across the skies of a Hawaiian paradise and launched a surprise attack on the U.S. armed forces at Pearl Harbor–the infamous day that jolted America from peaceful isolationism to total war and altered the co… Source

Pearl Harbor Movie Review from New York Times

By the time the Japanese bombers show up, more than an hour into this noisy, incoherent action-romance, you may feel something like relief. At least all the explosions will drown out the ear-splitting score and the mind-numbing dialogue. And, it should be said, the aerial combat sequences are vivid and impressive. But rarely has a movie so technica… Source

Pearl Harbor Movie Details from Imdb

Pearl Harbor is a classic tail of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and next thing you know Evelyn and Rafe are hooking up. Then Rafe volunteers to go fight in Britain and Evelyn and Danny get… Source

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