《从地球到月球》是根据历史真人真事改编的作品,它借用了著名科幻小说家、法国人儒勒·凡尔纳的纪实小说《A Man on the Moon站在月球上的人》的内容和素材改编而成。它全景式地描写和反映了围绕二十世纪人类最重要的科学活动——“登陆月球'所发生的种种事件,再现了这个人类历史上最伟大的探险壮举中的无数感人片断。为了能够真实地重现美国的月球计划,此片的每项涉及天文与航天科学的部分都是完全真实并经得起历史推敲的,此片的拍摄不仅得到了美国政府和国家航空航天局(NASA)的鼎力协助,而且很多装备和场景都是采用了本片的执行监制汤姆·汉克斯演出的奥斯卡提名影片《阿波罗13号》一片当中的设施。因为汉克斯本人一直为自己在《阿》片中的表现没有得到全面的认可感到有些失望,也对类似此片这样反映美国登月计划这一重要历史题材的影视作品情有独钟,意犹未尽,因此专门拍摄了《从》一片,把失败的“阿波罗13号行动'前后的所有故事全数搬上了荧屏,甚至媒体一直都把汉克斯的《阿》这部代表影片视为是《从》片的热身作品。
Fran has had a pen pal named Lenny since the first grade. Fran and Lenny, through their letters, get along famously, almost like boyfriend/girlfriend. They agreed early on never to exchange photographs, but Lenny, coming to New York, wants to meet Fran in person. Maxwell is anxious to meet Lenny as he feels he's in competition with Lenny. Fran, on the other hand, is nervous to meet Lenny as she has exaggerated who "Fran Fine" is in her letters. But Fran agrees to meet Lenny at the Russian Tea Room, each identifying the other by the red rose worn on their lapels. Again, Maxwell is anxious to see Lenny, and accompanies Fran to the Russian Tea Room and stays with her until Lenny shows up. Fran and Maxwell are having a nice enough "date" of their own while they wait for Lenny, so nice that Fran almost doesn't care if Lenny shows up or not.
Upon returning home from Paris, Fran couldn't be happier when C.C. says Maxwell just hired her for her looks. To find out if this is true, Fran tries dating a blind guy. Meanwhile Maxwell tries to back-peddle after what he told Fran on the plane.
If not for C.C. walking in on them, Maxwell and Fran would have done it in the hospital bed next to Niles. After the fact, Fran is encouraged that finally something is happening between them. Maxwell on the other hand is still uncertain, and gets some glib advice from Niles to preoccupy Fran with some meaningless project, like redecorating a room, to give him more time to figure out what to do. Fran sees right through what Maxwell's doing. Sylvia sees Maxwell's ploy as letting Fran into his life and his home, especially as the room in question is the sanctuary: the kitchen. Fran initially wants to do all the work herself, much like Maxwell's first wife, Sarah, did with the house, but Sylvia convinces Fran to enlist the help of Fran's flamboyant decorator cousin, Sheila.
On Fran and Maxwell's honeymoon aboard the yacht, Fran falls overboard and Maxwell jumps in to rescue her. They manage to make it to a deserted island. There, they have some good times and bad times in their survival, but the worst ends up being a poisonous bite that Maxwell receives. He thinks he's going to die, but luckily for him, Fran watched daytime television in the past which gave her the necessary skills to tend to his illness. Meanwhile, they are noticed missing when the yacht docked at its first port without them. The Sheffield kids, Sylvia and Niles fear the worst. After a week of the Coast Guard not being able to locate any sign of Fran and Maxwell dead or alive, C.C. decides to take matters into her own hands.
The BBC will air Return to Paradise, a new Australia-set spin-off from one of the UK’s most watched dramas Death in Paradise. Filming next year, the six-part series will be produced by BBC Studios Productions Australia with Red Planet Pictures for the ABC, in association with the BBC.
Set in the idyllic, beachside hamlet of Dolphin Cove, Return to Paradise is six gripping, twis...