The Right Stuff
by Philip Kaufman
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Actor: Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Sam Shepard, Scott GlennDirector: Philip Kaufman
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
Writer: Philip Kaufman
Editor: Douglas Stewart
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Producer: James D. Brubaker
Producer: Robert Chartoff
Writer: Tom Wolfe
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 193 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-06-25
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Right Stuff
Movie Review: Corny and a bit dated
Summary: 3 Stars
This preceded by at least a decade Hollywood's obsession with relatively accurate biopics, so what you see here is very old-school: corny humor, stereotypes and emotional manipulation at every turn. The women are all long-suffering, the politicians clueless, the nerds who recruit the astronauts feckless and the astronauts themselves macho. Most macho is Chuck Yeager, of course, the high school grad who wasn't educated enough to be an astronaut, but who is portrayed as probably the bravest and best qualified. This also suffers from long periods of relatively boring exposition, such as the attempted comic health testing of the would-be astronauts. The movie is over 3 hours, which is about 90 minutes too long. This wasn't a big hit, and it seems dated by today's standards. It was up against "The Big Chill" back then, with that film's then-innovative soundtrack of oldies. This cast, however, is largely perfect in their resemblance to their real-life counterparts.
Summary of The Right Stuff
THE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL STORY OF AMERICA'S SPACE PROGRAM AT ITS CONCEPTION.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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