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Pearl Harbor (2001) -- Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war.
Pearl Harbor (2001) -- Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war.
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Overview

User Rating:
5.4/10   87,577 votes
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Director:
Michael Bay
Writer (WGA):
Randall Wallace (written by)
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Release Date:
25 May 2001 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Romance | War more
Tagline:
It takes a moment to change history. It takes love to change lives. more
Plot:
Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as they go off to join the war. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 34 nominations more
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(332 articles)
Tom Hanks, others screen 'Beyond All Boundaries'
 (From Filmicafe. 5 November 2009, 1:14 PM, PST)

Jerry Bruckheimer Grabs Shattered Union
 (From EmpireOnline. 26 October 2009, 11:24 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Pearl Harbour (UK) (promotional title)
Tennessee (USA) (working title)
Pearl Harbor (Austria) (Germany) [de]
Pearl Harbor (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
оЕЮПК уЮПАНП (Russia) [ru]
Pearl Harbor (Italy) [it]
Pearl Harbor (France) [fr]
Pearl Harbor (Brazil) [pt]
Pearl Harbor (Norway) [no]
Pearl Harbor (Greece) [el]
Pearl Harbor (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Pearl Harbor, entre el fuego y la pasión (Colombia) [es]
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for sustained intense war sequences, images of wounded, brief sensuality and some language.
Runtime:
183 min | USA:184 min (director's cut)
Country:
USA
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS-8 (one 70 mm print for Tokyo Dome, Japan) | DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS (8 channels)
Certification:
Taiwan:PG-12 | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (British Columbia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:PG (Alberta) | Iceland:12 | Malaysia:U | Brazil:12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:MA (director's cut) | Australia:M | Chile:TE | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:12 (f) (w) | Germany:16 (f) (director's cut) | Hong Kong:IIA | India:U | Ireland:12PG (original rating) | Ireland:12 (video rating) | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M (original rating) | New Zealand:R16 (director's cut) | Norway:15 | Peru:PT | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | Sweden:15 (director's cut) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 | USA:R (director's cut)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Ashton Kutcher lost the role of Danny Walker to Josh Hartnett. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: In the golf course scene you can see a Willys Jeep M38. This car was not produced before 1950. more
Quotes:
Gooz: Oh, that ain't no Navy issued uniform, there. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in 101 Biggest Celebrity Oops (2004) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Lei Ika Mokihana more

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191 out of 366 people found the following comment useful.
It's as awful as you've heard. Really., 8 April 2006
1/10
Author: mutty_mcflea from Bristol, UK

This bloated, overblown, tediously overlong, hilariously cheesy 'Titanic' wannabe showcases plenty of expertise in the visual effects department and nothing but laughable bombast everywhere else. 'Titanic' worked because James Cameron knew how to find the balance between fictional, old-fashioned cornball romance and a devastatingly true-life disaster. The sinking of the ship was not just a stunning achievement technically but also truly emotionally draining. Cameron had respect for his subject matter.

This monstrosity, on the other hand, is a disrespectful, clueless chump of a movie that plays like Bay thought he'd been far too restrained on 'Armageddon'. The bombing sequence is full of headless, armless and legless corpses, drooling shots of soldiers getting blown up, lovingly composed shots of torpedoes heading towards their targets, and a detailed succession of explosions, bullet hits and crashing planes so endless that I got the feeling that, rather than wanting us to realise the horror of the attack, Bay just can't leave anything unseen. It's warnography of the worst kind.

As for the screenplay, put a peg on your nose. Every line of dialogue is either a pompous pronouncement, a howlingly clichéd clanger, a hindsighted historical prediction, or what seems like the beginning of a momentous speech. Seriously, how were the crew not chewing their jumpers in an attempt to hide their laughter? Josh Hartnett's okay though, and likable for the first time, while Ben Affleck embarrasses himself, Kate Beckinsale does herself no favours as she climbs another rung on the Hollywood ladder, and decent actors like Jon Voight, Alec Baldwin, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Sizemore and Jennifer Garner are wasted in varying levels of blathering idiocy.

Meantime, Hans Zimmer's score blasts us into submission, coating every vaguely patriotic, heroic or romantic moment with music so glutinous that it's like being held down while someone pours a bucketful of golden syrup into your face. In fact, uber-hack Bay overplays the entire thing, using every manipulative technique at his disposal, from slo-mo to quiet sound with 'moving' music to at least a billion million shots of people looking up at planes. This movie is a whole new kind of bad, and it makes '1941' look like a straight-faced docudrama.

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