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The Final Countdown is a 1980 American science fiction war film about a modern nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.
Dec 19, 2023 · This 1980 science fiction film, directed by Don Taylor and starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, and James Farentino, takes viewers on a suspenseful journey as a modern aircraft carrier is transported back in time to the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack during World War II.
Dec 16, 2016 · The Final Countdown seems to have been wholly original and The Philadelphia Experiment extends a long-standing, commonly debunked, myth about "invisibility experiments" into a time travel story.
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In 1980, the aircraft carrier departs Naval Station Pearl Harborfor naval exercises in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The ship takes on a civilian observer, Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen) — a systems analyst for Tideman Industries working as an efficiency expert for the U.S. Defense Department — on the orders of his reclusive employer, Mr. Tideman, whose secr...
Kirk Douglas as Captain Matthew Yelland, Commanding Officer, USS Nimitz. He was the father of the film's producer who also appears in the film.Peter Douglas was the driving force behind The Final Countdown. With a limited budget and a promising script, he was able to attract interest from the U.S. Navy. Officials from the Department of Defense offered full cooperation after seeing a script, but insisted that for safety and operational readiness, the film schedule would be dependent on the...
The Final Countdown was released to theaters in the United States on August 1, 1980. A novelization by Martin Caidin, based on the screenplay, was released in the same month and largely dovetailed with the film presented on screen (the novelization ending with Lasky accompanying Tideman/CDR Owens and Laurel to their home, where it is revealed that ...
Critical reception
The Final Countdown received mixed reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film received an approval rating of 52% based on 21 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10. Vincent Canby of The New York Times considered it more of an interesting, behind-the-scenes tour of Nimitz: "We see planes landing and taking off with beautiful precision and, just to let us know that things don't always run smoothly on Nimitz, we also see one plane, which has lost its land...
Box office
The film grossed $3.25 million in its opening weekend from 681 screensand earned a total of $16.6 million in the United States and Canada. The film made $3 million in Germany.
Nominee, Best Science Fiction Film of Year—Saturn Award (Peter Vincent Douglas)Nominee, Best Actor—Saturn Award (Kirk Douglas)Winner, Golden Screen Award(German box office award)Caidin, Martin. The Final Countdown. New York: Bantam, 1980. .Dolan, Edward F. Jr. Hollywood Goes to War. London: Bison Books, 1985. .Frietas, Gary A. War Movies: The Belle & Blade Guide to Classic War Videos. Bandon, Oregon: Robert D. Reed Publishers, 2011. .Kaufman, Lloyd, Trent Haaga, and Adam Jahnke. Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director. Los Angeles: L.A. Weekly Books, 2003. .Shimmin, Graeme. "The Final Countdown - Movie Review., Retrieved: May 29, 2024.Kjolseth, Pablo. "Home Video Reviews: The Final Countdown". Turner Classic Movies.Retrieved: September 7, 2012.Suid 2002, pp. 421–423.Apr 4, 2017 · The Final Countdown is a time-travel movie from 1980, starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen. It’s often described as an alternative history movie, though technically it isn’t. Despite that, it has gathered a cult following over the years.
May 17, 2021 · For starters, it isn’t all Die Hard action. Whereas the adrenal gets pumping when John McClane engages mano a mano with a bunch of machine-gun wielding terrorists, the military thriller is driven by the minds dissecting the conflict. It’s far more chess match and far less macho dodgeball.
Apr 17, 2012 · The Setups: Possibly based on a TRUE STORY, in 1943, the USS Eldridge is part of an experiment in the Philadelphia harbor (hence the name) to render naval ships invisible to radar. But...
