Space Cowboys (2000) Movie Overview

Space Cowboys is a 2000 adventure/comedy film directed by Clint Eastwood. Eastwood also stars in the film alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older “ex-test pilots” who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite. The original music score was composed by Eastwood and Lennie Niehaus. An obsolete Soviet communications satellite is about to fall out of orbit, and NASA agrees to deal with it. The onboard systems are so archaic that nobody at NASA understands them, so they ask retired United States Air Force pilot and electrical engineer Dr. Frank Corvin (Eastwood), who designed the original guidance systems from which the satellite has been copied, to help them, despite the longstanding animosity between the engineer and project director Bob Gerson (James Cromwell). A flashback reveals that 40 years ago, Corvin’s prospects as an astronaut were dashed with the formation of NASA, a civilian agency. Corvin and his three-man team were replaced by a chimp which was a shrewd move calculated by Gerson. Meanwhile, in the present, NASA engineer Sara Holland (Marcia Gay Harden) argues with project manager Gerson regarding conflicting political and eng… Source

• Space Cowboys Movie Details
• Director: Clint Eastwood
• Official Sites: Warner Bros. [us]
• Tagline: Boys will be boys.
• Country: USA , Australia
• Run Time: 130 min
• Genre: Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi , Thriller

• Cast Overview
• Clint Eastwood as Frank Corvin
• Tommy Lee Jones as Hawk Hawkins
• Donald Sutherland as Jerry O'Neill
• James Garner as Tank Sullivan
• James Cromwell as Bob Gerson
• Marcia Gay Harden as Sara Holland

Space Cowboys Movie Review from New York Times

The second half of Clint Eastwood’s new movie is a pleasant reworking of the standard trouble-in-space movie, with Mr. Eastwood himself leading a heroic team of astronauts that also includes Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner. But the first half, which consists of the comic, tough-old-guy interplay among these four sublime actors,… Source

Space Cowboys Movie Details from Imdb

In 1958, four hot shot test pilots seem certain to be the first men to go into outer space. However, the back-stabbing leader of their organization disbands them to prevent their involvement in the then forming NASA and labels them as non-team players. Flash forward to the present, the foursome are now living a docile life. The electrical engineer… Source

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