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The Right Stuff

  • 7.8 /10

  • 955

  • 96%

Plot

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.

Cast

Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager
Sam Shepard

as Chuck Yeager

Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard
Scott Glenn

as Alan Shepard

Ed Harris as John Glenn
Ed Harris

as John Glenn

Dennis Quaid as Gordon Cooper
Dennis Quaid

as Gordon Cooper

Fred Ward as Gus Grissom
Fred Ward

as Gus Grissom

Barbara Hershey as Glennis Yeager
Barbara Hershey

as Glennis Yeager

Kim Stanley as Pancho Barnes
Kim Stanley

as Pancho Barnes

Veronica Cartwright as Betty Grissom
Veronica Cartwright

as Betty Grissom

Pamela Reed as Trudy Cooper
Pamela Reed

as Trudy Cooper

Scott Paulin as Deke Slayton
Scott Paulin

as Deke Slayton

Movie Facts

Rated

  • PG

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • October 20, 1983

Production Companies

  • The Ladd Company

  • Chartoff-Winkler Productions

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

  • Pусский

Budget

  • $27,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $21,500,000.00

Runtime

  • 3.22 hrs

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Reviews

**Overall, it's a good movie about the start of the space race.** The space race was one of the aspects that marked the intense rivalry between the USA and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. There was the notion that space could be a battleground or a zone of influence, as colonial territories had been decades before, and that the nuclear threat made it urgent to dominate space. That's why …