The Right Stuff PG

How the future began.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 3 hours, 13 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 8, 2011
  • Originally Released: 1983
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1983 - Best Film Editing: Not Applicable & Tom Rolf
Academy Awards 1983 - Best Original Score: Bill Conti
Academy Awards 1983 - Best Sound: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1983 - Best Sound Effects Editing: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh98%

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Total Count: 48

Upright90%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 22,886
It means something to be a member of the brotherhood whose trials and accomplishments are celebrated so enjoyably in The Right Stuff. Full Review
Washington Post
Dec 18, 2015
...Kaufman's love for the Yaeger character pays off in the magical closing sequence of the film...
Chicago Sun-Times
Feb 16, 2003
Included in The New York Times 10 BEST FILMS OF 1983
New York Times
Dec 25, 1983
Rating: 5/5 -- History, melodrama, comedy and satire are skilfully combined in this consistently exciting adventure. Visually and dramatically it rarely sags, there's a vivid array of characters and though it's a film with issues, these never eclipse the human drama. Full Review
Film4
Oct 5, 2011
[The film] delivers real exuberance....Time has been good to it.
Premiere
Mar 1, 2004
...One of the best Hollywood movies of the past 20 years...
USA Today
Jan 15, 1993
...Full of beauty, intelligence and excitement....[The film] provides a fresh, entertaining look back at the recent past....[The] cinematography is lustrous and impeccably clean...
Variety
Oct 12, 1983

Product Description:

This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe. Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test pilots courageously fought to break the sound barrier. These maverick men would stop at nothing to achieve winning speed. Led by their champion, Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard), they caroused at the local watering hole while sharing tales of extreme sport and bravery--until the Russians successfully sent their Sputnik satellite into the skies, and the United States government panicked, quickly launching a space program of its own. In an effort to find the right men for the job, the government searched the desert and the seas, compiling a crew of daredevil space cowboys willing to do anything for the chance to represent America in the space race. After grueling medical, physical, and psychological tests, seven men were left standing, led by American hero John Glenn (Ed Harris), test pilots Gordon Cooper (Dennis Quaid), Gus Grissom (Fred Ward), and Scott Carpenter (Charles Frank), and Navy man Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn). With the help of the media and the government, these men became overnight heroes, sacrificing their freedom and their families for the dream of space travel. This piercing exploration of the men and wives behind the mission serves as a testament to the determination of America to dominate the field of space exploration, while offering an intriguing portrait of a period in which America wanted to believe in perfect men and their perfect wives, even if the reality was vastly more complex. Philip Kaufman's gripping film also features fabulous special effects and stunning aerial cinematography.

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  • UPC: 883929165148
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