The Right Stuff (1982)

[Edgy MD]

Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, and other 1980s badasses play the team of Mercury astronauts preparing to be the first men in space, and Sam Shepherd plays Chuck Yeager, the supersonic test-pilot and baddest cowboy of them all, left behind by history.

[Benjamin Grimm]

TiVoed this movie just the other day. Hope to watch it in the next couple of weeks.

I remember liking the movie, and the book, a lot.

[Guest themetfairy]

I remember seeing it in Boston in the fall of 1983, along with D-Dad and an old friend of ours who was in town.

When I associate a movie with those kinds of details, it means that the film really stood out for me.

[Willets Point]

One of my favorite movies of all time. There were times in my life when I could recite all the dialog.

There was a demon that lived in the air....

[Edgy MD]

Strange structure. It's a film that starts and stops and starts over again.

[Guest sharpie]

Liked the book but not the movie. The whole mythic Chuck Yeager thing really left me cold. One of the reasons I stopped seeing movies based on books I liked.

[Guest themetfairy]

The film is, indeed, from 1983.

[dgwphotography]

Willets Point wrote: One of my favorite movies of all time. There were times in my life when I could recite all the dialog. There was a demon that lived in the air....

Same here.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

The Right Stuff is the shit....watch it at least once every 12-15 months.