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Pearl Harbor
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.
2001 · Directed by Michael Bay · 183 min · War · History · Drama · Action · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 14 frames
Tagline
It takes a moment to change history. It takes love to change lives.
Plot
In 1923, best friends Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker play together in the back of a biplane owned by Rafe's father in Tennessee, pretending to be combat airmen.
By 1941, Danny and Rafe are first lieutenants in the US Army Air Force under the command of Major Jimmy Doolittle. The United States has not yet entered in World War II so Rafe volunteers for the Eagle Squadron (an RAF unit for American volunteer pilots during the Battle of Britain). Nurse Evelyn Johnson signs off Rafe's medical exam despite his dyslexia, and they start up a relationship.
Four weeks later, Rafe and Evelyn, now deeply in love, enjoy an evening of dancing at a nightclub and later a jaunt in the New York Harbor in a borrowed police boat. Rafe shocks Evelyn by saying that he has joined the Eagle Squadron and is leaving the next day. During a mission to intercept a Luftwaffe bombing raid, Rafe is shot down over the English Channel and is presumed killed in action. Danny and Evelyn mourn Rafe's death together, which spurs a new romance between them.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Written by: Randall Wallace
- Cinematography: John Schwartzman
- Edited by: Roger Barton, Mark Goldblatt, Steven Rosenblum, Chris Lebenzon
- Music: Hans Zimmer
- Production design: Nigel Phelps
- Produced by: Pat Sandston, Kenny Bates, Jennifer Klein, K.C. Hodenfield
Cast
- Ben Affleck as Rafe McCawley
- Josh Hartnett as Danny Walker
- Kate Beckinsale as Evelyn Johnson
- William Lee Scott as Billy
- Greg Zola as Anthony Fusco
- Ewen Bremner as Red
- Alec Baldwin as Doolittle
- Jaime King as Betty
- Catherine Kellner as Barbara
- Jennifer Garner as Sandra
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: French, English, Japanese
- Studios: Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films
- Budget: $140,000,000
- Box office: $449,220,945
- Themes: army, airplane, nurse, patriotism, hawaii, world war ii, pilot, pearl harbor, u.s. air force, dyslexia
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