The Challenger (2013) (TV)

	Directed by: James Hawes	AKA The Challenger Disaster COUNTRY UK/USA GENRE Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE The Challenger Disaster RUNNING TIME 89 minutes
	Produced by: Laurie Borg/BBC
	Written by: Kate Gartside

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Dr. Richard Feynman	William Hurt
Gweneth Feynman	Joanne Whalley
General Donald Kutyna	Bruce Greenwood
Chairman William Rogers	Brian Dennehy
Dr. Sally Ride	Eve Best
Dr. Weiss	Henry Goodman

Review

This BBC-produced TV-movie about the aftermath of the Challenger disaster in 1986 is diligent, interesting and told with a clever sense of suspense by James Hawes. The basis for the script is two books, one of which was written by the protagonist of this story, Dr. Richard Feynman – a theoretical physicist who is unfazed by the threatening nature and hierarchy of NASA and the American government and decides to get to the bottom of what went wrong with the now infamous space shuttle based on his own expertise and empirical data. This may well be a film better suited for people who have a history of listening to people like Feynman talk in real life, but the tense nature and technical novelty of the story should make it fascinating to action and thriller buffs as well.