Produced in 2000 by Beacon Communications for $80 million, released Dec. 25, 2000, by New Line Cinema, widescreen DeLuxe color, digital sound, 145 minutes
Production:
- Directed by Roger Donaldson
- Written by David Self, based on the book The Kennedy Tapes - Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow
- Produced by Peter O. Almond, Armyan Bernstein, Kevin Costner, and investor Kevin O'Donnell (son of Kenny O'Donnell)
- Original music by Trevor Jones
- Cinematography by Andrzej Bartkowiak
- Film Editing by Conrad Buff IV
- Production Design by J. Dennis Washington
- Art Direction by Ann Harris, Tom Targownik
- Set Decoration by Denise Pizzini
- Costume Design by Isis Mussenden
- Sound editing by Steven D. Williams
- Special Effects by Cinesite Hollywood, VCE (Visual Concept Entertainment)
Cast:
- Kevin Costner as Kenny O'Donnell
- Bruce Greenwood as John F. Kennedy
- Steven Culp as Robert F. Kennedy
- Dylan Baker as Robert McNamara
- Michael Fairman as Adlai Stevenson
- Henry Strozier as Dean Rusk
- Frank Wood as McGeorge Bundy
- Len Cariou as Dean Acheson
- Janet Coleman as Evelyn Lincoln
- Stephanie Romanov as Jacqueline Kennedy
- Bill Smitrovich as General Maxwell Taylor
- Ed Lauter as General Marshall Carter
- Dakin Matthews as Arthur Lundhal
- Walter Adrian as Lyndon Johnson
- Peter White as John McCone
- Tim Kelleher as Ted Sorensen
- James Karen as George Ball
- Dan Ziskie as General Walter "Cam" Sweeney
- Kevin Conway as General Curtis LeMay
- Kelly Connell as Pierre Salinger
- Olek Krupa as Andrei Gromyko
- Elya Baskin as Anatoly Dobrynin
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