The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan’s devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Film Cast:

• Rafe McCawley: Ben Affleck
• Evelyn Johnson: Kate Beckinsale
• Danny Walker: Josh Hartnett
• Doris Miller: Cuba Gooding Jr.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: Jon Voight
• Earl Sistern: Tom Sizemore
• James Doolittle: Alec Baldwin
• Red Winkle: Ewen Bremner
• Billy Thompson: William Lee Scott
• Anthony Fusco: Greg Zola
• Sandra: Jennifer Garner
• Betty Bayer: Jaime King
• Barbara: Catherine Kellner
• Martha: Sara Rue
• Gooz Wood: Michael Shannon
• Captain Thurman: Dan Aykroyd
• Admiral Kimmel: Colm Feore
• Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto: Mako
• Nishikura: John Fujioka
• Cmdr. Minoru Genda: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
• Young Rafe: Jesse James
• Young Danny: Reiley McClendon
• Danny’s Father: William Fichtner
• Rafe’s Father: Steve Rankin
• Training Captain: Brian Haley
• Adm. Chester W. Nimitz: Graham Beckel
• British Pilot: Will Bowden
• Japanese Aide: Angel Sing
• Dorie’s Friend: Rufus Dorsey
• Joe: Matthew Davis
• Flyer with Murmur: David Hornsby
• George Marshall: Scott Wilson
• George: Howard Mungo
• Strategic Analyst: Randy Oglesby
• Japanese Officer: Ping Wu
• Pentagon Lieutenant: Stan Cahill
• Frank Knox: Tom Everett
• Jack Fletcher: Tomas Arana
• Motherly Secretary: Beth Grant
• Listener: Sung Kang
• Kimmel’s Aide: Raphael Sbarge
• Louie: Marty Belafsky
• Japanese Shy Bomber: Yuji Okumoto
• Ellis: Josh Green
• Radar Operator #2: Ian Bohen
• Army Commander: Michael Milhoan
• Mervyn Bennion: Peter Firth
• Pop-Up Sailor: Marco Gould
• Boxer Joe: Andrew Bryniarski
• Terrified Sailor: Nicholas Downs
• Navy Doctor: Tim Choate
• Senior Doctor: John Diehl
• Medic: Joseph Patrick Kelly
• Minister: Ron Harper
• Army Major: Ted McGinley
• Raymond Spruance: Madison Mason
• Jack Richards: Kim Coates
• William Halsey Jr.: Glenn Morshower
• Doolittle Co-Pilot: Paul Francis
• Ripley: Scott Wiper
• Gunner: Eric Christian Olsen
• Navigator: Rod Biermann
• Japanese Soldier: Noriaki Kamata
• Japanese Soldier: Garret Sato
• Japanese Soldier: Eiji Inoue
• Nursing Supervisor: Precious Chong
• Next Guy in Line: Jeff Wadlow
• Train Conductor: Will Gill Jr.
• Japanese Tourist: Seth Sakai
• Eighteen-Year-Old Typist: Curtis Andersen
• Orderly in Aftermath: Blaine Pate
• Naval Officer in Hospital: John Pyper-Ferguson
• Marc Mitscher: Michael Shamus Wiles
• Samoan Bouncer: Toru Tanaka Jr.
• Traction Sailor: Sean Gunn
• Wounded Sailor #1: Josh Ackerman
• Wounded Sailor: Matt Casper
• Young Nervous Doctor: David Kaufman
• Captain Low: Lindsey Ginter
• Teeny Mayfield: Guy Torry
• Major Jackson: Leland Orser
• Mission listener: Peter James Smith
• Newsreel Guy: Pat Healy
• Young Flier: Thomas Wilson Brown
• Nurse: Chad Morgan
• Japanese Aide: James Saito
• Japanese Aide: Tak Kubota
• Sunburnt Sailor: Robert Jayne
• Japanese Doctor: Vic Chao
• Wounded Sailor: Frederick Koehler
• Baja Sailor: Ben Easter
• Baja Sailor: Cory Tucker
• Baja Sailor: Abe Sylvia
• Baja Sailor: Jason Liggett
• Baja Sailor: Bret Roberts
• Danny’s Gunner: Sean Faris
• RAF Squadron Leader: Nicholas Farrell
• Ian: Tony Curran
• Pilot: Daniel Mays
• Dentist: Toshi Toda
• Dental Assistant: Jaymee Ong
• Nurse (uncredited): Lisa Ross
• Bit Part (uncredited): Max Thayer
• Nurse (uncredited): Camille Carida
• Self (archive footage) (uncredited): Winston Churchill
• Nurse (uncredited): Tanya Dempsey
• Self (archive footage) (uncredited): Adolf Hitler
• Nurse (uncredited): Frieda Jane
• Stearn Nurse (uncredited)): Kathleen Mullan
• Japanese Sailor (uncredited): Lin Oeding
• Josephine Doolittle (uncredited): Barbara Scolaro
• Nurse (uncredited): Melissa Anne Young

Film Crew:

• Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
• Original Music Composer: Hans Zimmer
• Executive Producer: Bruce Hendricks
• Executive Producer: Mike Stenson
• Executive Producer: Chad Oman
• Producer: Pat Sandston
• Editor: Chris Lebenzon
• Costume Design: Michael Kaplan
• Casting: Bonnie Timmermann
• Producer: Michael Bay
• Director of Photography: John Schwartzman
• Editor: Mark Goldblatt
• Supervising Sound Editor: Christopher Boyes
• Executive Producer: Randall Wallace
• Editor: Steven Rosenblum
• Music Supervisor: Bob Badami
• Hairstylist: Christine Beveridge
• Special Effects Coordinator: John Frazier
• Producer: K.C. Hodenfield
• Assistant Costume Designer: Rhona Meyers
• Production Coordinator: Debra James
• Supervising Art Director: Martin Laing
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Eric Brevig
• Art Direction: William Ladd Skinner
• Production Design: Nigel Phelps
• Art Direction: Jon Billington
• Stunt Coordinator: Kenny Bates
• Executive Producer: Scott Gardenhour
• Producer: Jennifer Klein
• Line Producer: Selwyn Roberts
• Executive Producer: Barry H. Waldman
• Editor: Roger Barton
• Set Decoration: Eliza Solesbury
• Set Decoration: Jennifer Williams
• Costume Design: Mitzi Haralson
• Special Effects Supervisor: Keith Marbory
• Stunt Coordinator: Rocky Capella
• Visual Effects Producer: David S. Dranitzke
• Assistant Art Director: Robert Woodruff
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Greg P. Russell
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Mitchell Amundsen
• Camera Operator: Nigel Willoughby
• Steadicam Operator: Robert Presley
• Camera Operator: Michael Stone
• Casting Associate: Eyde Belasco
• Makeup Effects: Stan Winston
• Script Coordinator: Matthew Cohan
• Set Medic: Louis Farah
• Key Hair Stylist: Kathe Swanson
• Assistant Art Director: Paul Sonski
• Stunts: Benny Urquidez
• Visual Effects Producer: Jeff Werner
• ADR & Dubbing: Cindy Marty
• Dialect Coach: Carla Meyer
• Property Master: Charles Stewart
• Stunt Coordinator: Andy Gill
• Aerial Coordinator: Alan D. Purwin
• Marine Coordinator: Douglas C. Merrifield
• Pilot: Steve Hinton
• ADR & Dubbing: Christopher T. Welch
• Stand In: Geoffrey Gould
• Prosthetic Supervisor: John Rosengrant
• Makeup Department Head: Julie Hewett
• Makeup Artist: Mindy Hall
• Costume Supervisor: Linda Matthews
• Makeup Artist: Edouard F. Henriques
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Nathan McGuinness
• Foley: Dan O’Connell
• Sequence Supervisor: Joel Aron
• ADR & Dubbing: Julie Feiner
• Foley: John T. Cucci
• Gaffer: Andy Ryan
• Dialogue Editor: Marshall Winn
• Supervising Sound Editor: George Watters II
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Kevin O’Connell
• Sound Designer: Ethan van der Ryn
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Edward Hirsh
• Still Photographer: Andrew Cooper
• Visual Effects Producer: Kathy Chasen-Hay
• Visual Effects Producer: Ned Gorman
• Camera Operator: Ian Foster
• Underwater Camera: Pete Romano
• Construction Coordinator: Greg John Callas
• Camera Operator: Kurt E. Soderling
• Script Supervisor: Karen Golden
• Unit Publicist: Gabriela Gutentag
• Hair Department Head: Yolanda Toussieng
• ADR & Dubbing: Michelle Pazer
• Visual Effects Art Director: Alex Jaeger
• Armorer: Stanford Gilbert
• Visual Effects Editor: Kristopher Kasper
• Stunt Coordinator: Steve Picerni
• Dialogue Editor: Allen Hartz
• Dialogue Editor: David A. Arnold
• Dialogue Editor: Ulrika Akander
• Camera Operator: Kim Marks
• Sound Effects Editor: Adam Kopald
• Supervising Dialogue Editor: Teri E. Dorman
• Hairstylist: Janine Rath
• Key Hair Stylist: Michael Ornelaz
• ADR & Dubbing: Petra Bach
• Special Effects Supervisor: Yves De Bono
• Modeling: Ross Shuman
• Stunts: Mike Smith
• Second Assistant Accountant: Dana M. Michaelsen
• Music Supervisor: Kathy Nelson
• Casting Associate: Alison E. McBryde
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Robert Mazaraki
• Rigging Gaffer: Jeffrey P. Soderberg
• Researcher: Vanessa Bendetti
• Hairstylist: Dino Ganziano
• Makeup Artist: Stacye P. Branche
• Art Department Assistant: Suzanne Austin
• Art Department Coordinator: Alan Day
• Art Department Coordinator: Greg Figiel
• Assistant Art Director: Donna Willinsky
• Sound Effects Editor: R.J. Palmer
• Visual Effects Editor: Greg Hyman
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Lindsey Cline
• Visual Effects Coordinator: David M. Gray
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Susan Greenhow
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Margaret B. Lynch
• Gaffer: Tom Derose
• Gaffer: Terry Potter
• First Assistant Editor: Clay Rawlins
• Production Secretary: Miranda Marks
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Rachael Lin Gallaghan
• Production Sound Mixer: Peter J. Devlin
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Elona Tsou
• Travel Coordinator: Leslie Silvey
• Production Secretary: Esteban Sanchez
• Title Designer: Robert Dawson
• Pilot: Ivor Shier
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Ben Snow
• Production Accountant: Jason Bogard
• Production Assistant: Eric Glasser
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Cindy Franke
• Production Secretary: Shawn Pipkin
• Textile Artist: Melissa Binder
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Neal Naito
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Lisa Davidson
• Dialect Coach: Mika Sogawa
• Military Consultant: David M. Kennedy
• Production Accountant: AnaMarie C. Gonzaga
• Stand In: Allan Bragg
• Animal Coordinator: Paul ‘Sled’ Reynolds
• Production Coordinator: Emily Stillman
• Production Coordinator: Stiles White
• Second Assistant Accountant: Robert George
• Production Assistant: Gary A. Martin
• Production Assistant: Natalie Ballesteros
• Aerial Coordinator: Stephen Grey
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Paul LaZebnik
• First Assistant Accountant: Jeff Dash
• First Assistant Accountant: Rick Marcena
• First Assistant Accountant: David M. Atkinson
• First Assistant Accountant: Eric D. Shain
• First Assistant Accountant: Joan M. Zulpher
• First Assistant Accountant: Andrew MacLean
• Payroll Accountant: Debi West
• Payroll Accountant: Michael Goldberg
• Production Assistant: Brandon Arolfo
• Production Assistant: Jordan Berkus
• Production Assistant: Dax A. Cuesta
• Production Assistant: Kirby C. Fortenberry
• Production Assistant: Justin G. Maguire
• Production Assistant: Adam Martinez
• Production Assistant: Josh Price
• Production Assistant: Dana Suman
• Production Assistant: Rob McCabe
• Production Controller: Julie Jones
• Production Coordinator: Pamela Gossage
• Production Executive: Jason Reed
• Production Secretary: Hagop Yaglian
• Production Secretary: Derek DiBiagio
• Production Secretary: Windi See Vianello
• Production Secretary: Gerri Char
• Production Secretary: Melisa Uchida
• Production Secretary: Collene Van Arkel
• Researcher: Aimee O’Shea
• Second Assistant Accountant: Amy Davila
• Second Assistant Accountant: Kathy Donno
• Second Assistant Accountant: Ernst W. Laurel
• Stand In: Keith Butler
• Stand In: Rodney Bursiel

Movie Reviews:

• John Chard: OK! Lets not beat around the bush, it’s historically suspicious, badly written, badly cast and clearly an hour too long. A splendid “support cast” are wasted as Michael Bay and his production team think they can produce some sort of Titanic of the Skies like epic and fail in their objective. By the time of the brilliantly constructed assault by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, and “it is” exhilarating and edge of the seat heart pounding, you are left with the feeling that all the main characters in the piece are not really worth our emotional investment.

  It’s not an outright stinker, situations such as the nurses trying to cope in the hospital during the attack are poignant, and there’s a jingoistic – cum – romantic fervour that screams out that the film wants to be genuine in making you feel, well, emotionally battered. However, given the budget and time you are asked to invest in the story, it’s impossible not to feel cheated as the clock ticks past the three hour mark.

  Perhaps it’s unfair to use Titanic as a template for this type of epic? Especially since over the course of time many have come out of the woodwork to knock Titanic when previously there were nods in appreciation for it, all be it grudgingly. But Pearl Harbor just doesn’t have enough about it to make it even a “time waster” recommendation, and this even allowing for some quality “Bayhem” action as the film rolls into its blunderbuss third quarter. 5/10

• CinemaSerf: After about half an hour, I started to wonder if this film was going to take as long to get going as a pearl takes to form in an oyster! It’s a close run thing, as it must be around eighty minutes in before the Japanese come to the rescue of the audience and introduce some action into this over-long and dreary romance. Certainly it is all handsomely presented with Ben Affleck (“Rafe”) at his most swarthy as he gets it to together with “Evelyn” (Kate Beckinsale). Having put us through the usual “how to get the girl” shenanigans, though, he heads off to the UK to help in the Battle of Britain. It’s from here that reports reach her that he has been killed. Enter his best friend “Danny” (Josh Hartnett) who tries to console her before, well you can guess the rest. You can also easily guess that Affleck was being paid way too much money to be out before the fighting began in earnest, so back he duly arrives and a yawn-making love triangle takes over the plot. When we finally do start to focus on the events of December 7th, 1941, the action partially redeems this film. Twenty minutes of a quickly paced depiction of the meticulously planned destruction of the US Pacific fleet that caused mayhem and carnage upon their ill-prepared quarry. The creative use of CGI and intricate photography illustrate well both the human catastrophe as well as the significant destruction of materiel. Of course, our two survive and together with their erstwhile CO “Doolittle” (Alec Baldwin) are drafted into the retaliation plan than involves a perilous, long range, bombing attack on Tokyo to demonstrated that they still have the capacity for potent response. This is two films, really, and I much preferred the later stages. Even then, though, it has a shockingly poor script and the characterisations are weak and undercooked. The technology is used well, but that’s about all I can say for this sentimental and meandering offering.