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Summer Friday Matinee: Apollo 13

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Spend your Summer Friday afternoons relaxing at the library with friends and a good movie!

Join us for a screening of the award-winning 1995 historical drama Apollo 13 (rated PG; 2 hours 20 minutes).

This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit. However, when an oxygen tank explodes, the scheduled moon landing is called off. Subsequent tensions within the crew and numerous technical problems threaten both the astronauts' survival and their safe return to Earth.



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