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The Right Stuff

How the future began.

1983 · PG · 3h 13m

Directed by Philip Kaufman

7.4

TMDB audience score
1,023 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Sam Shepard
    Chuck Yeager

  • Scott Glenn
    Alan Shepard

  • Ed Harris
    John Glenn

  • Dennis Quaid
    Gordon Cooper

  • Fred Ward
    Gus Grissom

  • Barbara Hershey
    Glennis Yeager

  • Kim Stanley
    Pancho Barnes

  • Veronica Cartwright
    Betty Grissom

  • Pamela Reed
    Trudy Cooper

  • Scott Paulin
    Deke Slayton

  • Charles Frank
    Scott Carpenter

  • Lance Henriksen
    Wally Schirra

  • Donald Moffat
    Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Levon Helm
    Jack Ridley / Narrator

  • Mary Jo Deschanel
    Annie Glenn

  • Scott Wilson
    Scott Crossfield

  • Kathy Baker
    Louise Shepard

  • Mickey Crocker
    Marge Slayton