The USS Oklahoma capsizes after several torpedoes strikes her, trapping hundreds of men inside. The USS Arizona is obliterated with when an armor-piercing bomb detonates the ship's forward ammunition magazine, literally lifting the bow out of the water. Danny finds Rafe in the bar with the intention of making things right, but the two get into a fight.Įarly the next morning, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese navy begins its attack on Pearl Harbor. He goes to the Hula bar where he is welcomed back by his overjoyed fellow pilots. On the night of December 6, Evelyn is shocked to discover Rafe standing outside her door, having survived his aircraft crash. Three months later, Evelyn and Danny develop feelings for each other. Danny gives Evelyn the news and she is devastated. Meanwhile, Rafe flies in numerous dogfights with the RAF against the Luftwaffe, becoming a flying ace, but is shot down over the English Channel and presumed to be killed in action. Rafe shocks Evelyn by saying that he has joined the Eagle Squadron and is leaving the next day.ĭanny, Evelyn and their fellow pilots and nurses are transferred to Pearl Harbor. That night, Rafe and Evelyn enjoy an evening of dancing at a nightclub and later a jaunt in New York harbor in a borrowed police boat. A nurse named Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale) meets Rafe and passes his medical exam despite his dyslexia. Doolittle informs Rafe that he has been accepted into the Eagle Squadron (a RAF outfit for American pilots during the Battle of Britain). After Rafe's father lands his biplane and leaves, Rafe and Danny climb into the plane and Rafe accidentally starts it, giving the boys their first experience at flight.Įighteen years later, in January 1941, Danny (Josh Hartnett) and Rafe (Ben Affleck) are both first lieutenants under the command of Major Jimmy Doolittle (Alec Baldwin).

In 1923 Tennessee, two young boys, Rafe McCawley (Jesse James) and Danny Walker (Reiley McClendon), play together in the back of an old biplane, pretending to be soldiers fighting the Germans in World War I. It is based on the 1941 attack on the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin.

Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American epic romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. Who let an explosion loving director mix an unfaithful event with a romance film?

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