Tom Wolfe’s book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once.
Release Date: 21 October 1983Runtime: 193 min
Stars:
- Barbara Hershey
- Charles Frank
- Dennis Quaid
- Donald Moffat
- Ed Harris
- Fred Ward
- Kim Stanley
- Lance Henriksen
- Levon Helm
- Mary Jo Deschanel
- Pamela Reed
- Sam Shepard
- Scott Glenn
- Scott Paulin
- Veronica Cartwright
Director: Philip Kaufman
