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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790777696
ISBN: 079077769X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 10, 2003
Running Time: 193 minutes
Sales Rank: 5207
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 1983
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In the middle of the 20th century America pondered its future - and looked to the skies. Based on Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff is the tale of how that future began a thrilling epic of intrepid test pilot Chuck Yeager and the seven pioneering astronauts of the Project Mercury space program. Philip Kaufman scripts and directs pushing the envelope with a filmmaking bravado that matches this soaring story of training and heroism; and of sudden fame for which there is no training. Ed Harris Barbara Hershey Sam Shepard Dennis Quaid and Fred Ward are among the perfect cast of this winner of 4 Academy Awards* that in a pristine 20th-anniversary digital transfer remains the stuff of must-see entertainment. Let's light this candle flyboys!Running Time: 193 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085392449927
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Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s.It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining history (both established and revisionist), grand mythmaking (and myth puncturing), adventure, melodrama, behind-the-scenes dish, spectacular visuals, and a down-to-earth sense of humor, The Right Stuff chronicles NASA's efforts to put a man in orbit. Such an achievement would be the first step toward President Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon, and, perhaps most important of all, would win a crucial public relations/morale victory over the Soviets, who had delivered a stunning blow to American pride by launching Sputnik, the first satellite. The movie contrasts the daring feats of the unsung test pilots--one of whom, Chuck Yeager, embodied more than anyone else the skill and spirit of Wolfe's title--against the heavily publicized (and sanitized) accomplishments of the Mercury astronauts. Through no fault of their own, the spacemen became prisoners of the heroic images the government created for them in order to capture the public's imagination. The casting is inspired; the film features Sam Shepard as the legendary Yeager, Ed Harris as John Glenn, Dennis Quaid as 'Gordo' Cooper, Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield, and Pamela Reed and Veronica Cartwright are superb in their thankless roles as astronauts' wives. --Jim Emerson
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Rating:  - Really the Right Stuff....
This is one of those movies that provides such valuable prospective, that even 25, 30 years after the movie was released, it still stands as one those movies you not only remember, you find you reference and watch over and over again. Read the book first, and then watch the movie, as certain references make more sense, but if you love learning about America's entry into the space race, and still more the Mercury Program, this is for you. It should be noted here that it is not just about the space ... Read More
Rating: - great movie!
This is a movie about pioneers and explorers in our time. The story really lets you see how it must have all looked and felt in the eyes - and hearts - of the American men who first reached the stars. It all really came alive for me in this movie. I watch it over and over!
Rating: - This is just a fantastic movie!
About a month ago, myself and three classmates of mine had to watch this film for our end-of-the-year movie assignment in our U.S. History class. It gives me great pleasure to say that this film blew us all away.
The film, in essence, is really two stories that remain largely unrelated: the first half is the story of Chuck Yeager, the Air Force test pilot who was the first to break the sound barrier; the second half is the story of the first seven astronauts and the struggles they faced. ... Read More
Rating: - The Right Stuff
How much do you really know about the beginnings of the space program and how it all came about?This movie sets the scene and gives an insight into the brave men who took the Western World into the space age.Chuck Jaeger, the first man to break the sound barrier and survive, makes a cameo appearance while all actors put a human face to those brave Mercury Pilots who not only risked all but gave us the names of the sons in Thunderbirds.Great performances by each of the stars and well worth a look.
Rating: - A Great Story and Movie
I was at Edwards AFB when they filmed this movie in 1982. Two years before, as a young lieutenant I arrived there to become quickly immersed in the lore of the place: Pancho Barnes, Rogers dry lake, leiman ridge, the rocket tests, the flight test center, and, who else, Chuck Yeager. I met the man himself once after Hal Needham, and Stan Barrett broke the sound barrier with their rocket car. Yeager helped them get support for their project.
This movie is great entertainment but was hurt at the ... Read More
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