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Edgy MD
Dec 05 2010 02:36 PM

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
Dec 05 2010 05:50 PM
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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.

themetfairy
Dec 05 2010 06:25 PM
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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
Dec 05 2010 06:43 PM
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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
Dec 05 2010 06:47 PM
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Strange structure. It's a film that starts and stops and starts over again.

sharpie
Dec 05 2010 07:51 PM
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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.

themetfairy
Dec 05 2010 07:55 PM
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The film is, indeed, from 1983.

dgwphotography
Dec 13 2010 03:36 PM
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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.

The Second Spitter
Dec 26 2010 03:13 AM
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The Right Stuff is the shit....watch it at least once every 12-15 months.