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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 3, 1997
Budget USD 27,000,000
MPAA Rating
PG
Running Time
3 hours, 13 minutes
Country USA
Studio Ladd Company, Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• The Right Stuff
• Der Stoff aus dem die Helden sind (1984)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Space, True Story, Suspense, Military, Political
Tagline: How the future began.
Plot: 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
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| Written by |
Philip Kaufman
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Quills |
 | Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Last American Hero, I Am Charlotte Simmons |
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 | Scott Glenn
The Silence of the Lambs, Apocalypse Now, The Hunt for Red October |
 | Ed Harris
The Truman Show, The Rock, A Beautiful Mind |
 | Dennis Quaid
Traffic, The Day After Tomorrow, Any Given Sunday |
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 | Barbara Hershey
Falling Down, The Last Temptation of Christ, Hannah and Her Sisters |
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| Music By |
Bill Conti
Rocky, The Thomas Crown Affair, For Your Eyes Only |
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