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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.
Pearl Harbor (2001) -- US Home Video Trailer from Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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Overview

User Rating:
5.4/10   88,643 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Randall Wallace (written by)
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Release Date:
25 May 2001 (USA) more
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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
NewsDesk:
(346 articles)
The people who ruined the decade
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 11 December 2009, 4:58 PM, PST)

The people who ruined the decade
 (From The Guardian - TV News. 11 December 2009, 4:58 PM, PST)

User Comments:
Hollywood At Its Worst more (1919 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Pearl Harbour (UK) (promotional title)
Tennessee (USA) (working title)
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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)
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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)

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Trivia:
Michael Bay's least favorite shot in the movie is the cutaway during the Doolittle Raid to the Japanese women turning and seeing the attack in the distance. On the DVD commentary, he admits he has no idea why this shot is in the movie or what he was trying to achieve in shooting it. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the planes take off to bomb Tokyo, the captain of the carrier says "forward" in order to help them taking off. When the planes are still taking off, the carrier has its anchor chains as if it was anchored. more
Quotes:
Nurse Martha: I joined the army to do MY patriotic duty... AND... to meet guys. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in 99euro-films (2001) more
Soundtrack:
Little Brown Jug more

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212 out of 408 people found the following comment useful.
Hollywood At Its Worst, 12 December 2002
2/10
Author: Theo Robertson from Isle Of Bute, Scotland

I wasted three hours of my life watching this crap . Sure as hell I won`t be wasting too much time writing a long review .

I hated this movie , it`s so full of anachronisms and cliches and I`m so glad everyone else has pointed them out , but the two ones that made me laugh were Josh Hartnett announcing " World War Two has just started " . Hey since the second world war started more than two years before in September 1939 you just know this is from an American ( Read Hollywood ) perspective , not that it was called " World War Two " for a considerable time afterwards , and the scenes where Gooding Jnr bellows " Yo who`s da man ? " Yo right on bro you zap those Jap mofos with your 90s street vocabulary . Most excellent dude

I did like the bit where Ben Affleck screams " Get me into a goddamn plane " because I thought the producers and screenwriter had used up every cliche in the book by that point. Nice to be proved wrong , though I don`t think I`ll be proved wrong when I say Affleck will never win an Oscar for his acting ability .

My heart had a nice little holiday when I found out this flopped both commercially and critically . Maybe now the Hollywood system can concentrate on making films with good scripts and little FX before they bankrupt themselves . Though having said that if anyone in Hollywood is thinking of making a blockbuster as ridiculous as this or TITANIC based on 9/11 I`d be quite happy to see Hollywood bankrupted

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