Right Stuff

     

Right Stuff1983

Director: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 193 minutes

Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film… more »


Grand Designer:
We could launch a pod.

Lyndon Johnson:
A pot?

Grand Designer:
A POD - a, uh, capsule. Now, we would be in full control of zis pod. It vill go up like a cannonball, and come down like, uh, a cannonball, splashing down into ze water, the ocean, vith a parachute to spare the life of the specimen inside.

Lyndon Johnson:
Spaceman?

Grand Designer:
SPE-CI-MEN.

Lyndon Johnson:
Well, what kind of spe-ci-men?

Grand Designer:
A tough one. Responsive to orders. I had in mind a jimp.

Lyndon Johnson:
JIMP? Well what the HELL is a jimp?

Grand Designer:
A jimp. A-a-a jimpanzee, Senator. An ape.

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