The Right Stuff

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Call Number: Blu-ray Drama Right
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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These Blu-ray discs will not play in standard DVD players.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1983.
Based on the book by Tom Wolfe.
Special features include: additional scenes; John Glenn : American hero; The journey and the mission: scene specific commentaries by director/screenwriter Philip Kaufman, cast, and crew members; 3 featurettes featuring cast, crew, and the real-life heroes portrayed in the movie: Realizing the Right stuff, T-20 years and counting, and The real men with The Right stuff.
Charles Frank, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Quaid, Pamela Reed, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley, Fred Ward, Veronica Cartwright, David Clennon, Scott Wilson, Donald Moffat, Levon Helm, Jeff Goldblum, Harry Shearer, Royal Dano, Lance Henriksen, Scott Paulin.
The story of the Air Force test flights by Chuck Yeager that would lead to Project Mercury, which pioneered America's launch into the space race-- and of the seven men chosen to launch the U.S. into space: Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton.
Blu-ray discs; 1080p; 16X9, 1.85:1; Dolby True HD (advanced 96K upscaling) 5.1; Dolby digital 5.1, 1.0.
Contents: Right stuff.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great submitted by DL on July 23, 2014, 11:35pm Great movie on the first American astronauts and the training for being in space.

Loved it submitted by tshish on August 2, 2015, 9:08am Wow...a surprise that my 10 year old is now interested in space.

The good stuff submitted by brooksza on August 15, 2022, 11:34am I was surprised how much fun this movie was. I expected a cookie cutter biopic (or 7). It was long, but never felt TOO long and was a good flight through history of the space program. Goldblum and Dennis Quaid brought a lot of life to a movie with a lot of life.

You You You Got It submitted by Meginator on August 27, 2022, 9:43pm This slightly fictionalized portrayal of the Mercury Project lacks some of the rough honesty of the book on which it is based, but it still manages to show a different side of the early NASA program that often gets ignored. Chuck Yeager and the other test pilots of Edwards Air Force Base are often overlooked in favor of the Mercury astronauts who soon succeeded them at the edge of the atmosphere, but their story is integral to understanding the mindset of the Mercury 7 and the film does a decent job of translating the spirit of Tom Wolfe’s book to the silver screen. The acting is outstanding, the special effects are convincing (and hold up really well over time), and the story is compelling even though its broad contours are already known to most of its audience. This is a must-see for anyone interested in the early US space program.