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** Looking carefully at the bottom leg of Lovell's moon suit during his dream of walking there, the gap of the suit costume to the boot, exposing his leg, is a bit too visible.
** Lovell's dream shows him taking a few steps on the moon in a rather awkward-looking effect. Hanks makes up for this later in ''[[From the Earth to the Moon]]'', where the moonwalk sequences are eerily realistic.
* [[Doing It for the Art]]: The research, period detail and accuracy were highly praised by the people who had been there.
** Many of the makers, including Ron Howard, mention that part of their motivation for being so accurate was the likelihood that by the time of the next trip to the moon, most people who experienced the Apollo Program first-hand will have passed on, meaning that Apollo 13 may be the closest thing to a moon landing several generations get to see.
* [[Dyeing for Your Art]]: many of the weightless scenes were filmed in ''actual weightlessness'' aboard a NASA [[wikipedia:Vomit Comet|Vomit Comet]]. Other scenes were filmed in one gravity, using camera tricks, on a sound stage that was ''chilled to 34 degrees Fahrenheit'' so the actors' breathing would fog visibly.
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: See above. Bill Paxton didn't have to pretend to shiver when Haise developed a fever; it really was that cold on the set.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Mission control seems to be full of these.
** Hey, did the astronauts just tell one of [[Lost|the Others]] "Houston, we have a problem here?"
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** [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Balok]] is EECOM.
** [[CSI: NY|Mac Taylor]] is doing the reentry procedures. Or [[Forrest Gump|Lt.Dan]]. Take your pick. Especially since Forrest himself is Jim Lovell lol.
** The older Lovell daughter was the actress who played Nadine in ''[[Free Willy 2]]''
* [[Reality Subtext]]: The last thing Jim tells Marilyn before the mission "You can't live without me...", was, in fact, the first thing he said to her upon getting home.
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Ron Howard's brother Clint, as usual in [[Ron Howard]] movies. ("Gene, the ''Odyssey'' is dying.") Additionally, Howard's mother Jean plays Jim Lovell's mother Blanche, and Howard's father Rance appears as the minister watching Apollo 13's splashdown from the Lovell house, and Howard's then fourteen-year-old daughter Bryce Dallas Howard is an extra in the scene in which the astronauts were visiting with family members and other well-wishers down the road from the launchpad on the night before liftoff.
** Behind the scenes, associate producer Michael Bostick is the son of Jerry Bostick, the flight dynamics officer (FIDO) played by Ray McKinnon. The real Bostick also served as a technical adviser.
* [[Technology Marches On]]:
** Lampshaded when Jim Lovell shows off to some VIPs visiting Cape Canaveral "a computer that can fit inside a single room."
** Ron Howard also makes sure to show the engineers in Mission Control busting out slide rules as they try to figure out what's happening.<ref>Ironically, this was a case of [[Did Not Do the Research]], since that scene involved simple arithmetic, which is not something you would use a slide rule for.</ref>
** The new instructions for the CO<sub>2</sub> adapter and the powerup checklist were physically brought to flight control, and they were hand-written. They were read out to the flight crew. No e-mail or uploading here.
* [[Throw It In]]:
** Fred Haise's line "I could eat the ass out of a dead rhinoceros" was suggested by Gary Busey, who was visiting the set during filming.
** After Jack Swigert admitted to not filing his taxes before leaving for the Moon, Clint Howard ad-libbed his follow-up line, "That's no joke, they'll jump on him!" (Clint Howard has a history of trouble with the IRS).
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Kevin Costner]] was considered to star as Jim Lovell, who the real Lovell considered a good physical match with him at that time.
** [[John Cusack]] turned down the role of Fred Haise.
** [[Brad Pitt]] turned down the role of Jack Swigert to star in ''[[Se7en]]''.
** The scene where Jim Lovell notices their landing site is followed by a short day dream sequence scene of Aquarius landed on the surface and Jim taking his first steps in the lunar landscape. Kind of a [[Tear Jerker]], considering he was the only astronaut to visit Moon orbit twice in a row, but never had the opportunity to land there due to bad luck.
* The argument scene involving the re-entry plan and the numbers for the LEM resources actually didn't happen, it was added for dramatic effect. Ditto the anger about Ken being bumped. They were naturally saddened about it, but Lovell didn't really complain about Jack as Hanks did onscreen.
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