The Final Countdown (1980)

A modern nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is transported through a mysterious vortex to the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

First release year

1980

Runtime (minutes)

103

Production countries

United States

Original languages

English; Japanese

Directors

Don Taylor

Writers

David Ambrose · screenplay; Gerry Davis · screenplay; Thomas Hunter · screenplay; Peter Powell · screenplay

Cast and characters

Kirk Douglas; Martin Sheen; Katharine Ross; James Farentino; Ron O'Neal; Charles Durning

Genres

science fiction; war

Themes

Time Travel; Historical Intervention; Military Duty

Tone and mood

Serious; Action-oriented

Premise and plot tags

Alternate History; Time Travel; War

Source material / true-story basis

Screenplay by David Ambrose, Gerry Davis, Thomas Hunter, and Peter Powell.

Reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success.

Reported review scores

Rotten Tomatoes · score: 52% · review count: 23; Metacritic · score: 51 · scale: 100 · review count: 9

Awards and nominations

Saturn Award · Best Actor · Nominee; Golden Screen Award · German box office award · Winner

Production trivia

Troma Entertainment founder Lloyd Kaufman was an associate producer and has a minor acting role.; The film was produced with the cooperation of the United States Navy's naval aviation branch and the United States Department of Defense.; Three Mitsubishi A6M Zero replicas, originally built for the film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), were flown by pilots from the Confederate Air Force.

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