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19 November 1998 (USA)
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The Ultimate Test of Courage
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
Another 1 nomination
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OK, but not great
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Bill Campbell | ... | Clay Jarvis |
 | Paget Brewster | ... | Rena Winter |
 | Ned Vaughn | ... | Scott Hines |
 | Geoffrey Blake | ... | Jonah Randall |
 | Tasha Smith | ... | Karen Daniels |
 | Denis Arndt | ... | Don Mitchum |
 | Christopher John Fields | ... | Elliot Henschel |
 | Kevin McNulty | ... | Oz Gilbert (as Kevin Mcnulty) |
| Leslie Horan | ... | Melissa Hines |
 | Chris Ellis | ... | Bob Matthews |
| Greg Michaels | ... | Rusty Porter |
| Peter Bryant | ... | John Daniels |
| Tracy New | ... | Pierson |
| B.J. Harrison | ... | Emily |
| Neil Denis | ... | Michael Daniels |
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Max Q: Emergency Landing (UK) (USA) (alternative title)
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91 min | Argentina:98 min
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Max Q is indeed the point of maximum dynamic pressure on a vehicle during launch. It's also the name of the rock band whose members are all astronauts.
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A space shuttle mission is partly funded by a television company, using it as a platform to launch a satellite and put a journalist on the shuttle. However when the satellite causes an explosion the crew are forced to try and repair the damage to try a forced landing back on earth.
From the opening use of stock footage and immediate title, you know you're in TV movie land. The story gives rise to plenty of emotional, soapy dialogue but it also creates some genuinely exciting scenes. The effects are mixed – it uses a lot of stock footage, but it also has some good effects. It doesn't compete with the more professional Apollo 13 film, however it's quite good – even if the ending is just absurd, blockbuster-style nonsense.
The cast are pure TV standard and don't sound real when the stress hits, however they do OK with the action stuff. My main problem with them lay with the fact that some of them seemed to be doing impressions of other actors – in particular Blake often looked and sounded like Christian Slater.
Overall, it passed the time – but it's not that great, watch a real film instead!