Marketing maven Kelly Jones wreaks havoc on NASA launch director Cole Davis's already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, the countdown truly begins... Read allMarketing maven Kelly Jones wreaks havoc on NASA launch director Cole Davis's already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, the countdown truly begins.Marketing maven Kelly Jones wreaks havoc on NASA launch director Cole Davis's already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, the countdown truly begins.
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- TriviaCole's backstory is partially based on Deke Slayton. Slayton was a pilot in World War II, joined NASA as an astronaut for the Mercury program but was grounded due to atrial fibrillation, and became director of Flight Crew Operations for the Apollo program.
- GoofsA modern red LED digital countdown clock is seen at the back of the room in the mission control center. Such devices did not exist until several years later than depicted. In reality NASA used analogue countdown clocks away from the main TV monitors until well into the 1970s.
- Quotes
Moe Berkus: Pilots fight gravity. It's their nature.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Jeopardy!: Episode #40.216 (2024)
- SoundtracksThe Best Things in Life Are Free
Written by Lew Brown, Buddy G. DeSylva (as Buddy DeSylva) and Ray Henderson
Performed by Sam Cooke
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Featured review
When I saw the trailer for FLY ME TO THE MOON, I thought it looked like it would be fun, but I wasn't sure if it would be good. It is a movie taking place during the great space race of the 60s, where a shady government agent Moe (Woody Harrelson) hires the best marketing specialist Kelly (Scarlett Johansson) to publicize NASA to save their space program. She tries to work with the Apollo 11 launch director Cole (Channing Tatum), who is against the whole idea. The lines are blurred between acting and lying in this romance/comedy/political satire/historical drama. That's my main problem with this: it tries to be too many things, making the tone and pacing jarring for the audience. I didn't really feel the chemistry between the leads. I heard Chris Evans was going to be the lead. That would've been much better as him and "Scar-Jo" are good friends. Nothing against Channing, I just think he needed more to work with. It didn't feel like they were in the 60s: the costume designs were, but the way they spoke, not so much. Saying all of that, I still liked the fun ride. The side characters knew what kind of movie this was, especially Ray Romano and Jim Rash. The leads' backstories were good as well, even though I wish I had known a little earlier so I could have something to hang on to, character-wise. This was a perfectly charming crowd-pleaser that, to me, felt very much like a "studio-driven" movie. Original idea but somehow formulaic. FLY ME TO THE MOON is about how people will believe anything if Scarlett Johansson sells it to them. I still recommend seeing this "bit of fluff", as my uncle would say.
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- Jul 12, 2024
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- Also known as
- La Otra Cara De La Luna
- Filming locations
- Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA(Shooting at Kennedy Space Center March 2023)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $20,532,222
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,402,176
- Jul 14, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $42,220,597
- Runtime2 hours 12 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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