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Director:
Robert Harmon
Writer (WGA):
Lionel Chetwynd (written by)
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Release Date:
31 May 2004 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Drama | War more
Plot:
IKE: COUNTDOWN TO D-DAY depicts the tense 90 days leading up to the D-Day invasion and how Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 6 Primetime Emmys. Another 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
Producers Guild Nominations Announced
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User Comments:
Selleck Gets the Job Done more

Cast

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Ike: Thunder in June (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for mild language.
Runtime:
120 min (including commercials) | Brazil:88 min
Country:
USA | New Zealand
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Tom Selleck, a non-smoker, temporarily took up the habit to play Dwight Eisenhower, who was, according to Selleck in the DVD's bonus feature, a four-pack-a-day smoker at the time. In 1949, Eisenhower was advised by his doctor and friend, Howard Snyder, to cut down on the cigarettes to one pack per day. Eisenhower initially did so, but after a few days, he decided that counting cigarettes was worse than smoking and quit permanently in 1949. He never smoked again. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: In the scene where Eisenhower is holding the clip-board you can clearly see a laser scan bar code on the back. more
Quotes:
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Dearest Mimi…
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower: …at last the days grow longer and we will soon be in it, I face that with neither dread nor joy. How I wish this cruel business of war could be completed quickly. It leaves me heart sick to think of sending so many young men against Hitler's Atlantic wall...
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10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
Selleck Gets the Job Done, 4 June 2004
7/10
Author: Darryl Cox (DD-931) from Norman, Oklahoma

I have to say I think this may be Tom Selleck's best acting performance. He doesn't necessarily deserve an Emmy, but I'm also not being sarcastic; this is definitely a quality performance, not because it is some scene-chewing piece of grandstanding, but because it is subtle, honest, and to the point. The way Selleck shows Ike's moments of anguish over his awful responsibility are understated but no less compelling, and actually give some sense of what the actual man had to go through.

Although there are some inaccuracies in the film (Ike visits the paratroopers in the DAYTIME on June 6th? Those guys had dropped into France some 12 hours earlier!), I think we still get a good sense of how things were happening around Ike before D-Day. And contrary to some other opinions, I thought the portrayals of Churchill and Montgomery were both well-done and totally fair.

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