Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 193 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.
- based on novel or book
- nasa
- politics
- cold war
- answering machine
- pilot
- u.s. air force
- space travel
- biography
- based on true story
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Fred Ward — Gus Grissom
- Barbara Hershey — Glennis Yeager
- Kim Stanley — Pancho Barnes
- Veronica Cartwright — Betty Grissom
- Pamela Reed — Trudy Cooper
- Scott Paulin — Deke Slayton
- Charles Frank — Scott Carpenter
- Lance Henriksen — Wally Schirra
- Donald Moffat — Lyndon B. Johnson
- Levon Helm — Jack Ridley / Narrator
- Mary Jo Deschanel — Annie Glenn
- Directed
- Philip Kaufman
- Written
- Philip Kaufman
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 1,001 ratings
- Studio
- The Ladd Company, Winkler Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
