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American ideals
Corinne Glanville looks at the Apollo 13 re-creation and Disney's fantasy history Pocahontas

Apollo 13 has double Oscar winner Tom Hanks their friendship blossoms, hatred grows between Linda Hunt is the voice of the strongest women
at the helm. Hanks stars as Jim Lovell, with Bill the avaricious British and the Indians. When Smith ever in a Disney animation and Mel Gibson speaks
Paxton as Fred Haise and Kevin Bacon as Jack is captured, Pocahontas puts her life on the line to and sings as Smith. Listen out for Billy Connolly.
Swigert. save his. After the reception Pocahontas received in the
Together they enact the gripping story of the Look out for Percy, Governor Ratcliffes pug USA and the promotion it will get here, it can't fail
1970 Apollo 13 space mission, based on the dog and Wiggins, his offish but obedient servant. to be a good family entertainment hit.
popular book by Jim Lovell, recreating the true
story of the mission which left three astronauts
trapped in space while Mission Control in Hou-
ston desperately try to find a way to rescue them.
The exploding of an oxygen tank takes place
87 hours from home on the outward journey to I E FORIP
the moon and leads to what could be the quintes-
sential understatement ever: "Houston, we've
got a problem."
Throughout the next four days the astronauts
and the team on earth battle to return the crippled
craft back to earth. Twenty five years ago this
drama gripped the entire globe. The film is set to
rekindle dramatic memories for some and for
another generation it will perhaps open up and
for
enliven a piece of history.

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Grandmother Willow provides some
ancient advice to Pocahontas and Smith
Just in time for half term, Pocahontas mania
is about to strike Britain. It follows The Lion King
and Aladdin as the 33rd full length Walt Disney
cartoon. It is well crafted and drawn and the
computer animation techniques have enabled
Disney to create another visual spectacle.
Set in 1607, the film may be a little simplistic
for some, using just a touch of storyteller's
licence to romanticise the story of John Smith,
an English explorer and Princess Pocahontas,
daughter of Indian Chief Powhatan.
Smith, portrayed as a fair-headed Adonis, is a
soldier who sails to the New World with the
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Ratcliffe, seeking gold and other treasures.
Meanwhile in the Americas, beautiful
Pocahontas, drawn by Disney animators as a
sensuous creature with hair tumbling to her
waist, ponders her path in life. Should she marry Rent-a-Car
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