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Mar 16, 2002 · Two men haunt Philip Kaufman’s “The Right Stuff” (1983), the story of America’s first steps into space. One speaks little, the other hardly at all. The laconic one is Chuck Yeager, generally acknowledged as the best test pilot of all time, who judges himself by his achievements, not his words.
The cowboy at the beginning of “The Right Stuff” is Chuck Yeager, the legendary lone-wolf test pilot who survived the horrifying death rate among early test pilots (more than 60 were killed in a single month) and did fly the X-1 faster than the speed of sound.
The Right Stuff packs a lot of movie into its hefty running time, spinning a colorful, fact-based story out of consistently engaging characters in the midst of epochal events. Read Critics...
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- Philip Kaufman
- PG
- Sam Shepard
The Right Stuff is a spectacular celebration of those heroes of the skies -- those fly jocks who fought the demons of space to launch a new era in American air technology. Full Review | Oct 22,...
Nov 20, 2023 · Philip Kaufman calls his 1983 masterpiece ‘probably the longest movie ever made without a plot.’ Here the director discusses how film fibs, demons, and labia made ‘The Right Stuff’ just...
- Matt Zoller Seitz
- Features Writer
The Right Stuff is a bold and ambitious movie, based upon Tom Wolfe's novel of the same name. It's storyline depicts a very important part of history, namely, the cold war between the U.S. and Russia.
The Right Stuff is a 1983 American epic historical drama film written and directed by Philip Kaufman and based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe.
