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  The Right Stuff

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.

185 Minutes

Philip Kaufman (written for the screen by)
Tom Wolfe (based on the book by)

Philip Kaufman

Sam Shepard....Chuck Yeager
Scott Glenn....Alan Shepard
Ed Harris....John Glenn
Dennis Quaid....Gordon Cooper
Fred Ward....Gus Grissom
Barbara Hershey....Glennis Yeager
Kim Stanley....Pancho Barnes
Veronica Cartwright....Betty Grissom
Pamela Reed....Trudy Cooper
Scott Paulin....Deke Slayton
Charles Frank....Scott Carpenter
Lance Henriksen....Wally Schirra
Donald Moffat....Lyndon B. Johnson
Levon Helm....Narrator
Mary Jo Deschanel....Annie Glenn

Contains strong language, moderate sex references and injury detail

Genres

Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

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