THE RIGHT STUFF

Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn

Ladd/Warner Bothers; Directed by Philip Kaufman

Rated PG; 192 minutes; 1983

A rousing, exciting, satirical, warm, and vivid adventure story about the first men to explore the final frontier. The riveting, personal tale reveals the beauty, intelligence, humor, and humanness of the last American heroes—from Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier to Gordon Cooper, the last man to orbit the earth alone.