Apollo 13 news clips and a narrator's solemn voice deal with the actual problems. "Houston... We've Got a Problem" was also the title of an episode of the BBC documentary series "A Life At Stake", broadcast in March 1978. This was an accurate, if simplified, reconstruction of the events. Lovell was approached in 1991 by journalist Jeffrey Kluger about collaborating on a non-fiction account of the mission. The resultant book, "Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13", was published in 1994. The next year, in 1995, a film adaptation of the book, "Apollo 13", was released, directed by Ron Howard and
Tom Hanks box office draw and within the industry as an actor. For his performance in the film, Hanks earned his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. "Big" was followed later that year by "Punchline", in which he and Sally Field co-starred as struggling comedians. Hanks then suffered a run of box-office underperformers: "The 'Burbs" (1989), "Joe Versus the Volcano" (1990), and "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1990). In the last, he portrayed a greedy Wall Street figure who gets enmeshed in a hit-and-run accident. 1989's "Turner & Hooch" was Hanks' only financially successful film of the period. Hanks