How the future began.
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.
DramaHistorybased on novel or booknasapoliticscold waranswering machinepilotu.s. air forcespace travelbiographybased on true storyflighthistorical figure
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Character
Earnest, classical in form, epic and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
Who loves it, who doesn't
22 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.
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Cast
- Sam ShepardChuck Yeager
- Scott GlennAlan Shepard
- Ed HarrisJohn Glenn
- Dennis QuaidGordon Cooper
- Fred WardGus Grissom
- Barbara HersheyGlennis Yeager
- Kim StanleyPancho Barnes
- Veronica CartwrightBetty Grissom
- Pamela ReedTrudy Cooper
- Scott PaulinDeke Slayton
Crew
- Philip KaufmanDirector
- Philip KaufmanScreenplay
- Tom WolfeNovel
- Caleb DeschanelDirector of Photography
- Bill ContiOriginal Music Composer
- Glenn FarrEditor
- Lisa FruchtmanEditor
- Tom RolfEditor
- Robert ChartoffProducer
- Irwin WinklerProducer
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