Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam has dropped a missile on Thirteen Days, which largely concerns the Cuban missile crisis and the coterie of Boston politicians who formed John F. Kennedy's inner circle at the time. Beam, who apparently has seen the film, commented that the buzz surrounding it "couldn't be worse." He added: "The safe money says that the core moviegoing audience of teenage boys and girls won't buy tickets to see a dozen white guys in suits muttering darkly about a Soviet counterstrike in West Berlin ... wherever that is." Beam says that there are numerous problems with the film, several of which he lays at the feet of star Kevin Costner, who portrays White House chief of staff Kenneth O'Donnell.

Source: Studio Briefing