Year			2000
Genre			Dramatic thriller
Rating			PG
Parents			Offensive language
Length			2:25
Director			Roger Donaldson
Writer			Ernest R. May Philip D. Zelikow
Company			New Line Cinema
Starring			Kevin Costner Bruce Greenwood Steven Culp Dylan Baker Lucinda Jenney Bill Smitrovich Show more... Kevin Costner Bruce Greenwood Steven Culp Dylan Baker Lucinda Jenney Bill Smitrovich Oleg Vidov Peter White

Kenny O'Donnell (Kevin Costner), special assistant to President John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood), is a key White House insider. For thirteen extraordinary days in October of 1962, the world stood on the brink of an unthinkable catastrophe. Across the globe, people anxiously awaited the outcome of a harrowing political, diplomatic and military confrontation that threatened to end in an apocalyptic nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. This is a story of men who attained their shining moment in what appeared to be the nation's darkest hour.