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The Right Stuff (1983)
Director: Philip Kaufman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
From the opening moments it is clear that we have the nearest modern equivalent to a Western: men of quiet virtue going skyward, leaving the tawdry world of log-rolling politicians behind. John Ford might have made it, and director Kaufman matches up to the master of this kind of poetic hero worship. Beginning with Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier in the late '40s, he uses the great test pilot as a counterpoint to the training and eventual missions of the seven astronauts chosen for America's first space programme. Kaufman (like Tom Wolfe, whose book The Right Stuff this is taken from) is well enough aware of the media circus surrounding the whole project, but still celebrates his magnificent seven's heroism with a rhetoric that is respectful and irresistible. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Philip Kaufman
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
Cast: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Kim Stanley, Veronica Cartwright, Pamela Reed, Scott Paulin, Mary Jo Deschanel, Levon Helm, Scott Wilson, Jeff Goldblum full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 193 mins
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