You'll never believe how close we came.
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
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Earnest, epic, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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Cast
- Kevin CostnerKenneth O'Donnell
- Bruce GreenwoodJohn F. Kennedy
- Steven CulpRobert F. Kennedy
- Dylan BakerRobert McNamara
- Michael FairmanAdlai Stevenson
- Henry StrozierDean Rusk
- Frank WoodMcGeorge Bundy
- Kevin ConwayGen. Curtis LeMay
- Tim KelleherTed Sorensen
- Len CariouDean Acheson
Crew
- Roger DonaldsonDirector
- David SelfScreenplay
- Andrzej BartkowiakDirector of Photography
- Trevor JonesOriginal Music Composer
- Conrad Buff IVEditor
- Peter O. AlmondProducer
- Armyan BernsteinProducer
- Kevin CostnerProducer
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