The Right Stuff (1983)

Cast

Jeff Goldblum
as Recruiter
Ed Harris
as John Glenn
Dennis Quaid
as Gordon Cooper
Scott Glenn
as Alan Shepard

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Genres & Description

Action Adventure Biography Drama History

7.9 / 10

Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once.

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Comments on this trailer
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Mad Penguin

Risking their lives for a cold war and weapons makers. Sad tbh. - @Friday, April 14, 2017 9:36 PM

ogrelaca

As a fan of aviation I've found it amazing! - @Sunday, August 30, 2015 7:58 PM

rowdy yeats

Shephard : "Sounds dangerous. Count me in". Rocket the Racoon : "Oh, what the hell, I don't have that long a lifespan anyway". - @Wednesday, January 28, 2015 5:55 PM

rowdy yeats

This was an interesting movie. Because if you think about it, this, could be interpreted as Soviet Propaganda. They, the astronauts, are really cosmonauts, .. heros of the Proletariat, the working classes. For they reject what they do for money - no, they do what they do, because they wish to better themselves, and are not interested in "capitalism", fame and fortune, consumer fetishism, etc. They have, "the right stuff". To they who are familiar with Marx's writings on "dialectical materialism", it is obvious that these guys represent an evolutionary step - man overcoming baser desires of accumulating capital, or wealth, but interested in noble work, for the social good - to "push the envelope" of humanistic endeavors... the space race. Even that line, "I attend church regularly" comes across as a proletariat uber-mensch, mocking the lessor masses who yet sleep... For many, "the sane", would be of the opinion, "Umm, no, I get the gist of it, wherefore, no need to attend regularly". But the capitalist press, who wish the masses to remain under the sway of that opiate, love that line. They, and NASA, represent the owners, and the Press, their Ministry of Propaganda, which they, the cosmonauts must overcome - in the interest of the Proletariat, themselves. "I'm running this show"... "Oh yeah, we'll see about that". And so, the Revolution continues. Umm, too far-fetched? - @Tuesday, January 27, 2015 3:14 AM

Adam Blister

This is horribly shot and cheesy as all hell! - @Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:43 PM

Adam Blister

Nolan is influenced by the most horrendous movies lol. - @Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:43 PM

Zakariae zakichu

hola ! nolan fans :D - @Monday, September 29, 2014 8:53 PM

jo smith

yuck - @Sunday, June 1, 2014 7:00 AM

Wout Schreurs

Hellogreedo brought me here! - @Tuesday, March 4, 2014 7:36 PM

StargazerRainbowBG

Sounds like my kind of film! - @Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:41 AM

K1productions

Hmm, maybe I'm lucky for not being the negative-thinking type, Gus was always one of my favorites in this movie. But then, first time I saw the movie was when I was 5, lol. Still, I've always loved Gus, and I still do, and I believe in my heart had Apollo 1 gone well, Gus would have been the first man to walk on the moon, and it breaks me up that he never got that chance. - @Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:05 PM

LazlosPlane

Bad choice cutting to the Halelujah Chorus at the end. Real bad. - @Thursday, May 9, 2013 10:50 PM

ripdaddy KC

Yep. Gus got the shaft from the book and movie. He did a fine job on Gemini. - @Friday, May 3, 2013 6:10 PM

John Sanchez

me to lol - @Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:27 PM

xHugoxN7

Me too - @Tuesday, January 8, 2013 3:17 AM

osakadude

HelloGreedo brought me here. - @Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:45 PM

Wilhelm von Nord Bach

Gus and Betty Grissom were treated like SHIT in this movie and the way they were depicted was complete BULLSHIT. in fact Betty Grissom SUED Warner Brothers for defimation and got a multi-million dollar settlement. - @Friday, April 20, 2012 8:57 AM

TheJabberwock

This trailer should have less talking. - @Monday, June 13, 2011 4:33 PM