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Four exam pilots who missed their outing to space get a second possibility when they are called on to correct an aging Russian satellite.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #18333 in DVD
- Brand: Warner
- Released on: 2001-04-17
- Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English, French
- Subtitled in: English, French
- Dimensions: .20 pounds
- Running time: 130 minutes
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30 of 34 people found a following examination helpful.
By Kelly
A Russian satellite is carrying problems with its' superintendence system. The record is dated, and a usually one that has a resolution to a problem is a chairman that designed it. That chairman is Clint Eastwood, and he has a tough time perceptive how they got a reason of personal information, though agrees to do what he can to assistance as prolonged as they embody his other buddies that were never given a possibility to be in space. Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland are his partners in crime, and a situations and antics they get into are hilarious. What a stellar cast, and a ancillary expel is usually as considerable with James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden, and William Devane. This film is unequivocally entertaining, good acted, and has many noted moments. It is one we will suffer time after time.
23 of 26 people found a following examination helpful.
By Lawyeraau
This is a good acted film with a stellar cast. How can we go wrong with a film that stars Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner? Deftly destined by Clint Eastwood, it is a good made, interesting film.
The tract revolves around a predicament in space that is triggered when a Russian satellite malfunctions and is due to hit with Earth in densely populated areas, unless someone can correct it in space. The problem is that a record on a satellite is archaic and no one knows how to tackle it solely a contriver of that technology, late Air Force commander Frank Corvin, played by Clint Eastwood.
Corvin agrees to do so, though usually on condition that he and his tip gun organisation of forty peculiar years ago go into space to do it themselves. Having been kicked out of a space module in 1958, he wants an event for them to do what they had come so tighten to doing in a past. NASA agrees, though usually if this now geriatric party can pass a physical. Their credentials for their large impulse provides some laughs, as they eventually infer themselves a earthy equal of their younger counterparts and surpass them in knowledge and wisdom.
Permission for them to go into space is reluctantly granted, though most to their consternation, they eventually comprehend they have been sole a check of goods. Not usually has NASA not been traffic in good faith with them, though they eventually learn that a most some-more critical problem than a satellite malfunction exists. Unfortunately, they do not learn it until they are out in space.
What occur in space will keep a spectator glued to his or her seat. There is action, pathos, tension, and heroics. It is a film that says that one is never too aged for adventure.
10 of 11 people found a following examination helpful.
By B. GOODWIN
Clint Eastwood. Tommy Lee Jones. Donald Sutherland. James Garner. That's a approach to start a movie. The film starts out display a guys as immature group in 1958. They categorical thought is to turn a initial group in space, though after crashing their 3rd exam craft in 10 months, they find out that another agency, NASA, has been givin' that job. The film afterwards fastforwards to a present. A Soviet satelite is removing prepared to come down, though a Soviets are pulling to make certain that it stays in circuit since it is their usually communication satelite. The engineers can't figure out how to get that record to work as it is outdated. So they go to get assistance from a creator who happens to be Clint Eastwood. After primarily branch them down since of his loathing for their higher (you'll find out because when we watch this movie), he finally agrees to help. His thought is to send him and his 3 buddies up. The locate is they have to pass a physicals and all other exam that all other astronauts would to qualify. This is filled with Clint & Tommy Lee's characters constantly competing opposite one another that is waggish throughout. Pretty soon, they are on speak shows and in newspapers everywhere and are creation NASA renouned again. But before they get to go up, one a organisation is diagnosed with cancer. After some arguing, in that Clint believes his "enemy" is perplexing to keep him from going to space again, he finds out that a Vice President is unrelenting that they are sent into space to repair a satelite. And this is where it gets unequivocally exciting. With glorious acting, some good comedy in a beginning, and super special effects, this film is a keeper.They constantly are creation fun of their age and ceaselessly kick a odds. They also have an extended chronicle from a film of a guys on Jay Leno's show. It's flattering funny. Clint Produced, Directed, Starred, and also stoical a commencement song for a movie. And what a superb pursuit he did. Get this film and we won't dissapointed.
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First tagged "aviation" by Michael Jimerson
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