Pearl Harbor [videorecording] / Jerry Bruckheimer Films ; Touchstone Pictures ; producers, Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer ; writer, Randall Wallace ; director, Michael Bay.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 23889 | Buena Vista Home EntertainmentPublication details: [United States] : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2001]Edition: [60th anniversary commemorative ed. ; widescreen version]Description: 2 videodiscs (183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0788831216
- Pearl Harbor (Motion picture).
- Cinematography, John Schwartzman ; editors, Roger Barton ... [et al.] ; music, Hans Zimmer.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
At the time of its release, this lavish period war drama from hyperkinetic director Michael Bay became the most expensive motion picture ever green-lighted by a studio. Ben Affleck stars as Rafe McCawley, a military pilot stationed under Jimmy Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) in New Jersey, along with his best friend from childhood, Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett). Rafe is chomping at the bit to get involved in World War II, but America has not entered the conflict, so he is forced to fight on loan to the Royal Air Force in Britain, leaving behind his beautiful girlfriend Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale). After Rafe goes overseas, both Danny and Evelyn are transferred to the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where word arrives that Rafe has been killed in action. A grief-stricken Evelyn and Danny become romantically attached, a situation that becomes a lit powder keg when Rafe suddenly reappears, having survived his ordeal in the European war. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor puts the romantic triangle on hold, as the best friends are ordered to undertake a top-secret and highly dangerous retaliatory mission to bomb Tokyo, once again under the command of Doolittle. Although the trio of leads are entirely fictional, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, and Jon Voight (as FDR) co-star in the roles of real-life historical figures. Pearl Harbor is based on a script by Randall Wallace, writer of Braveheart (1995) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). Taking a page from the production history of James Cameron's Titanic (1997), many of the actors and filmmakers involved with Pearl Harbor deferred their usual salaries until the film "broke even" at the box office. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: "Journey to the screen: the making of Pearl harbor"; definative bibliography; "Unsung heroes" historical documentary; Faith hill music video "There you'll be."
Cinematography, John Schwartzman ; editors, Roger Barton ... [et al.] ; music, Hans Zimmer.
Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Ewen Bremner, Jon Voight, William Lee Scott, James King, Greg Zola, Tom Sizemore, Alec Baldwin, Michael Shannon, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe gets the chance to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he takes it, leaving his new love, Evelyn, a dedicated Navy nurse, and Danny, also a pilot, behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to the idyllic paradise of Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe, who has been declared missing. But just as the love triangle begins to get complicated, Dec. 7, 1941 arrives, changing all of their lives forever.
MPAA rating: PG-13.
DVD, Cinemascope, DTS 5.1 digital surround sound and Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound, THX-certified.
Closed-captioned.