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...real war in another country, a man doesn't necessarily need a woman in order to come of age. In The Right Stuff, the thrill and danger of flying monopolize the men's attention, a situation one wife not so subtly recognizes. " Punch a hole in the sky." Glennis Yeager (Barbara Hershey) tells husband Chuck (Sam Shepard) before he lowers himself into his cockpit. Yeager sets off and does break a record, and immediately afterwards he allows his plane to veer from its rigid course and weave through the sky, passing unusually dream-like cloud formations. The scene lacks only...
...Base, where we first meet some of the men who a decade later will become astronauts: Cooper (Dennis Quaid), Grissom (Fred Ward) and Deke Slayton (Scott Paulin). Along the way NASA adds Glenn (Ed Harris). Alan Sheperd (Scott Glenn). Scott Carpenter (Charles Frank) and Wally Schirra (Larrie Henriksen). But Yeager remains on the California desert to continue his test runs which seem every bit as heroic as his counterparts' trips into space. As portrayed by the playwright Sam Shepard, Yeager stands above the rest. His humility, perseverance and courage imply that even someone not lionized by the media may just...
...most part, the film focuses on Yeager, Glenn, Cooper, Shepard and, to an almost equal extent, their wives, a collection of women who offer moral support to one another and provide some the film's most effective scenes. Annie Glenn (Mary Jo Deschanel) stutters, a condition which makes her reluctant to meet with then-Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. Betty Grissom (Veronica Cartwright) succinctly expresses her disappointment, when her husband's first mission ends imperfectly. "Does this mean no Jackie?" she asks despondently, alluding to Louise Shepard's (Kathy Basker) visit with the First Lady. And Trudy Cooper (Pamela Reed) accepts...
HERO JOHN GLENN could be the next President of the United States, but relative unknown Chuck Yeager should be. That is the true message of The Right Stuff--a message missed by those who think that the film will do more for the former astronaut's Oval Office ambitions than the rather uninspiring candidate himself...
...guinea pigs are not true leads in the field. When recruiters go to Edwards Air Force Base to lure the flyers into becoming astronauts types who can't even get the respect of the waitress at Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club. When they approach the ringleader, Chuck Yeager, he laughs and calls it work for a lab animal...