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MEANRANK
62/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 40, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 52, everyone else 65.
See the most agreed on films →A modern U.S. aircraft carrier is caught in a strange storm and thrown back in time to December 1941, just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The crew, armed with advanced technology and knowledge of the impending historical tragedy, faces an impossible moral dilemma. They must decide whether to intervene and change the course of history or let events unfold as recorded.
Details
- Director
- Don Taylor
- Writers
- David Ambrose, Gerry Davis, Peter Powell, Thomas Hunter
- Studio
- Bryna Productions, United Artists
- Released
- 31 January 1980
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $12.0M
- Box office
- $16.6M
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