Movies

January, 1984

Fasten your seat belts for the visual and visceral excitement of The Right Stuff (Warner/Ladd), an enthralling experience on film. Writer-director Philip Kaufman's vibrant, more-than-three-hour-long adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 1979 best seller is a rah-rah American epic in praise of test pilots and the first seven Mercury astronauts, transporting us back to that golden age of innocence and awe when Alan Shepard's suborbital televised space flight had the whole goggle-eyed nation cheering. Almost i...