The Right Stuff PG
How the future began.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 3 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 8, 2011
- Originally Released: 1983
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Sam Shepard, Fred Ward & Dennis Quaid | |
Performer: | Barbara Hershey, Charles Frank, Veronica Cartwright, Pamela Reed, Scott Paulin, Lance Henriksen, Donald Moffat, Levon Helm, Scott Wilson, Kathy Baker, William Russ & Kim Stanley | |
Directed by | Philip Kaufman | |
Edited by | Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter & Douglas Stewart | |
Screenplay by | Philip Kaufman | |
Composition by | Bill Conti | |
Cameo: | Chuck Yeager | |
Produced by | Irwin Winkler & Robert Chartoff | |
Director of Photography: | Caleb Deschanel | |
Executive Production by | James D. Brubaker |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1983 -
Best Film Editing: Not Applicable & Tom Rolf
Academy Awards 1983 -
Best Original Score: Bill Conti
Academy Awards 1983 -
Best Sound: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1983 -
Best Sound Effects Editing: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Kaufman has combined the resources and ingenuity of movie making with the freewheeling, damn-the-conventions style of of the New Journalism and come up with a generous, high-spirited look at the bravery and lunacy that was that era.
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Los Angeles Times
Included in The New York Times 10 BEST FILMS OF 1983
New York Times
...Kaufman's love for the Yaeger character pays off in the magical closing sequence of the film...
Chicago Sun-Times
[The film] delivers real exuberance....Time has been good to it.
Premiere
Rating: 4/4 --
A great movie that unfortunately failed to attract audiences back in '83, this adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book about astronauts pays tribute to what we would like to believe represents the American spirit: hard work, perseverance, camaraderie and vision.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 5/5 --
History, melodrama, comedy and satire are skilfully combined in this consistently exciting adventure. Visually and dramatically it rarely sags, there's a vivid array of characters and though it's a film with issues, these never eclipse the human drama.
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Film4
Philip Kaufman's 1983 film is an efficient and absorbing recapitulation of the main events of Tom Wolfe's book that still never succeeds in capturing the inner drives and ethics of the test pilots and astronauts - the "right stuff" never materializes.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe. Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test pilots courageously fought to break the sound barrier. These maverick men would stop at nothing to achieve winning speed. Led by their champion, Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard), they caroused at the local watering hole while sharing tales of extreme sport and bravery--until the Russians successfully sent their Sputnik satellite into the skies, and the United States government panicked, quickly launching a space program of its own. In an effort to find the right men for the job, the government searched the desert and the seas, compiling a crew of daredevil space cowboys willing to do anything for the chance to represent America in the space race. After grueling medical, physical, and psychological tests, seven men were left standing, led by American hero John Glenn (Ed Harris), test pilots Gordon Cooper (Dennis Quaid), Gus Grissom (Fred Ward), and Scott Carpenter (Charles Frank), and Navy man Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn). With the help of the media and the government, these men became overnight heroes, sacrificing their freedom and their families for the dream of space travel. This piercing exploration of the men and wives behind the mission serves as a testament to the determination of America to dominate the field of space exploration, while offering an intriguing portrait of a period in which America wanted to believe in perfect men and their perfect wives, even if the reality was vastly more complex. Philip Kaufman's gripping film also features fabulous special effects and stunning aerial cinematography.
Keywords:
Action
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Adventure
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High Flying
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Space Exploration
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Suspense
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Thriller
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True Story
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Achievers
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Essential Cinema
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 7,000
- UPC: 883929165148
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