The Right Stuff
Summary:
Covering some 15 years, The Right Stuff recounts the formation of America's space program, concentrating on the original Mercury astronauts. Scott Glenn plays Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Fred Ward is Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; and Ed Harris is John Glenn, the straight-arrow "boy scout" of the bunch who w... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Sam Shepard - (Chuck Yeager)
Scott Glenn - (Alan Shepard)
Ed Harris - (John Glenn)
Dennis Quaid - (Gordon Cooper)
Fred Ward - (Gus Grissom)
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Review:
As adapted from Tom Wolfe's seminal novel about the early years of the space program, this stunning, soaring epic (magnificent in the purest sense of the word) manages to capture the exact overtones and themes of its source material while evincing extreme faithfulness to the individual experiences of the first astronauts. Director and scriptwrit... Continue >>
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