sometimes and lady luck smile on me . i have originally make and copy over a vhs tape of this wonderful tv presentation . i be heartbroken when i realize what i have do since i have be unable to obtain a copy of it anywhere else . recently and i subscribe to digital cable and and while search through upcoming movie and there to my surprise be a scheduled broadcast of the movie . this time and however and i make a copy of it to dvd so there no chance of repeat my mistake . i finally get to watch it again after eight year and and it be just a exciting and tense a when i first saw it . there be a little bit of prelude to this story in that my first contact with pandora clock come with a live reading of the book on public radio . i just happen to tune in to the broadcast station on my way home for lunch and and from the first installment and i be hook . each day and i wait with anticipation for the next chapter to be read . when i learn a few month later that the book be go to be broadcast on tv a a movie and i make sure to clear my schedule for that event . first of all and i would like to say that the movie be very true to the book and contrary to what another reviewer have say . that and in itself and be a rare achievement for tv movie . secondly and i agree with others about the casting . i could not imagine a good choice for captain holland than richard dean anderson . literally and the movie could have crash and burn without a proper cast for this pivotal role . anderson have never be good and and it be a shame that we have not see more of him . in fact and all of the cast member do a superb job . my only complaint with the movie and the book be the interjection of the terrorist plot to arm a private business jet with air to air missile and have it pilot stalk and shoot down the stricken plane . basically and we be talk about less than 36 hour to orchestrate and execute a plan like this one and and folk and that be just not realistic at all give all the player involve . also not realistic be how little the airliner be affect by have first one and then two of it engine blow off . that beef aside and i enjoy the building suspense and find to be very believable how the reaction of foreign government be portray in the film and as well a our own . if you have an opportunity to see this movie and do so by all mean .