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.
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Sam Shepard | Chuck Yeager |
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Scott Glenn | Alan Shepard |
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Ed Harris | John Glenn |
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Dennis Quaid | Gordon Cooper |
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Fred Ward | Gus Grissom |
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Barbara Hershey | Glennis Yeager |
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Kim Stanley | Pancho Barnes |
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Veronica Cartwright | Betty Grissom |
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Pamela Reed | Trudy Cooper |
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Scott Paulin | Deke Slayton |
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Charles Frank | Scott Carpenter |
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Lance Henriksen | Wally Schirra |
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Donald Moffat | Lyndon B. Johnson |
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Levon Helm | Jack Ridley |
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Mary Jo Deschanel | Annie Glenn |
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Scott Wilson | Scott Crossfield |
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Kathy Baker | Louise Shepard |
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Mickey Crocker | Marge Slayton |
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Susan Kase | Rene Carpenter |
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Mittie Smith | Jo Schirra |
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Royal Dano | Minister |
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David Clennon | Liaison Man |
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Jim Haynie | Air Force Major |
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Jeff Goldblum | Recruiter |
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Harry Shearer | Recruiter |
| Director | Philip Kaufman |
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| Writer | Philip Kaufman, Tom Wolfe | |
| Producer | James D. Brubaker, Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler | |
| Musician | Bill Conti | |
| Photography | Caleb Deschanel | |
| Edition | Special Edition |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital 5.1 [French] Dolby Digital Stereo [French] |
| Subtitles | Arabic | Bulgarian | Dutch | English | English (Closed Captioned) | French | German | Romanian | Spanish |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Jul 28, 2003 |
| Regions | Region 2 |
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