“How the future began.”
The Right Stuff
7.4
975 votes·1983
·3h 13m
·MovieDramaHistoryAdventure
Overview
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.
Commercial Verdict
Flop
Revenue vs Budget0.8x
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Lost money at the box office
Keywords
based on novel or booknasapoliticscold waranswering machinepilotu.s. air forcespace travelbased on true storyflighthistorical figureastronaut
Cast
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
Jack Ridley / Narrator
Mary Jo Deschanel
Annie Glenn
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