Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300271562 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 6300271560 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: April 01, 1992 Running Time: 193 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 1983 Sales Rank: 8003
Amazon.com: Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining history (both established and revisionist), grand mythmaking (and myth puncturing), adventure, melodrama, behind-the-scenes dish, spectacular visuals, and a down-to-earth sense of humor, The Right Stuff chronicles NASA's efforts to put a man in orbit. Such an achievement would be the first step toward President Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon, and, perhaps most important of all, would win a crucial public relations/morale victory over the Soviets, who had delivered a stunning blow to American pride by launching Sputnik, the first satellite. The movie contrasts the daring feats of the unsung test pilots--one of whom, Chuck Yeager, embodied more than anyone else the skill and spirit of Wolfe's title--against the heavily publicized (and sanitized) accomplishments of the Mercury astronauts. Through no fault of their own, the spacemen became prisoners of the heroic images the government created for them in order to capture the public's imagination. The casting is inspired; the film features Sam Shepard as the legendary Yeager, Ed Harris as John Glenn, Dennis Quaid as "Gordo" Cooper, Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield, and Pamela Reed and Veronica Cartwright are superb in their thankless roles as astronauts' wives. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - The Right Stuff
This is one of all-time favorite movies. It arrived as promised. I give it an "A."
Rating: - Absolutely Epic
I can say little more to praise this film than has been said before. It was the sort of product to which modern film-makers should aspire. A grand epic made more fantastic by the fact that its true. Well ... Read More
Rating: - Poor Packaging
I've had this movie on VHS for years and decided I would like to have a DVD version. The movie is outstanding and will always be a classic. However, this DVD lacks in quality of packaging. They have recorded ... Read More
Rating: - Really the Right Stuff....
This is one of those movies that provides such valuable prospective, that even 25, 30 years after the movie was released, it still stands as one those movies you not only remember, you find you reference and watch ... Read More
Rating: - great movie!
This is a movie about pioneers and explorers in our time. The story really lets you see how it must have all looked and felt in the eyes - and hearts - of the American men who first reached the stars. It all really ... Read More
- The Right Stuff
- Poor Packaging