The Right Stuff
(1983)
★ 7.4 IMDb · 1,003 votes
Year: 1983
Runtime: 193 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Сем Шепард, Скотт Гленн, Эд Харрис, Деннис Куэйд, Фред Уорд, Барбара Херши, Kim Stanley, Вероника Картрайт, Pamela Reed, Scott Paulin
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.
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.