Thirteen Days (2000)

Actors

• John F. Kennedy (actor)
• Michael J. Harker (miscellaneous crew)
• Walter Cronkite (actor)
• Kevin Costner (actor)
• Kevin Costner (producer)
• Ed Lauter (actor)
• Craig Hosking (actor)
• Cliff Fleming (actor)
• Bruce Greenwood (actor)
• James Karen (actor)
• Jessica Drake (miscellaneous crew)
• Jack McGee (actor)
• Michael De Luca (producer)
• Phil Hawn (actor)
• Deborah Ricketts (miscellaneous crew)

Genres

• Drama
• History
• Thriller

Taglines:

You'll Never Believe How Close We Came

Quotes:

Kenny O'Donnell: If the sun comes up tomorrow, it is only because of men of good will. And that's - that's all there is between us and the devil.

Robert McNamara: This is not a blockade. This is language. A new vocabulary, the likes of which the world has never seen! This is President Kennedy communicating with Secretary Khrushchev!

Kenny O'Donnell: Adlai! It's Ken; how you doin'?::Adlai Stevenson: Busy, Ken. What do you need?::Kenny O'Donnell: The president told me to pass the word to you: Stick it to them!::Adlai Stevenson: I hear you. I'm glad it's you calling; I thought it would be Bobby.::Kenny O'Donnell: Adlai, the world has to know we're right. If we're gonna have a chance at a political solution we need international pressure... You gotta be tough, Adlai. You need to find it, buddy.::Adlai Stevenson: If they're still sticking to their stonewalling stategy, I'll get them. I'm an old political cat, Kenny, but I've got one life left.::Kenny O'Donnell: I know you do.

[about the Joint Chiefs of Staff]::Kenny O'Donnell: They want a war, Jack, and they're arranging things to get one.

General Curtis LeMay: Those goddamn Kennedys are gonna destroy this country if we don't do something about this!

President Kennedy: [slams fist] *I* have the authority! I am the commander in chief of the United States, and I say when we go to war!

Adlai Stevenson: [asking the Russian ambassador if there are any Soviet missile bases in Cuba] Sir, I am prepared to wait for your answer till Hell freezes over, if that's your decision.

Robert Kennedy: We gave up so much to get here... I don't know; sometimes I think, "What the hell did we do it for?"::Kenny O'Donnell: Well, I don't know about you, but... I'm in it for the money.

Kenny O'Donnell: That's going to be tough - you know how these guys are about their chains of command.::President Kennedy: Listen, you tell 'em those chains of command end at one place: *me*.

President Kennedy: Bobby, you gotta go in there and you gotta make them understand... that we have to have an answer tomorrow... because Monday, we go to war.

Thant, U Filmography

• The Doomsday Clock
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Century of Warfare
  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Executive Action
  1973, role: actor , character name: Himself - Applauds Test Ban Treaty
• Malcolm X
  1972, role: actor , character name: Himself - UN
• Strike Zion!
  1967, role: actor , character name: Himself - UN