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The Right Stuff
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.
1983 · Directed by Philip Kaufman · 193 min · Drama · History · 17 frames
Tagline
How the future began.
Crew
- Screenplay: Philip Kaufman
- Cinematography: Caleb Deschanel
- Edited by: Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Tom Rolf, Stephen A. Rotter
- Music: Bill Conti
- Production design: Geoffrey Kirkland
- Produced by: Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler
Cast
- Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager
- Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard
- Ed Harris as John Glenn
- Dennis Quaid as Gordon Cooper
- Fred Ward as Gus Grissom
- Barbara Hershey as Glennis Yeager
- Kim Stanley as Pancho Barnes
- Veronica Cartwright as Betty Grissom
- Pamela Reed as Trudy Cooper
- Scott Paulin as Deke Slayton
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Russian
- Studios: The Ladd Company, Winkler Films
- Budget: $27,000,000
- Box office: $21,500,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, nasa, politics, cold war, answering machine, pilot, u.s. air force, space travel, biography, based on true story
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