Cast: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Kim Stanley, Barbara Hershey, Pamela Reed, Veronica Cartwright, Charles Frank, Scott Paulin, Donald Moffat, Lance Henriksen, Mary Jo Deschanel, Levon Helm
Director: Philip Kaufman
Rating: PG
Studio: Warner Bros.
Release date: September 9th, 1983
Synopsis:
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.