

The Right Stuff
How the future began.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $27M
- Box office
- $21.5M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- nasa
- politics
- cold war
- answering machine
- pilot
- u.s. air force
- space travel
- biography
- based on true story
- flight
- historical figure
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)PG21 Oct 1983
- TheatricalPG17 Feb 1984
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical152 Mar 1984
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG1 Feb 1984
- TheatricalRe-release21 Sept 1995
CanadaCA
- Theatrical21 Oct 1983
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical22 Dec 1983
AustriaAT
- Theatrical1 Sept 1984
BrazilBR
- Theatrical101 Jan 1984
- PhysicalDVD21 Sept 1998
CzechiaCZ
- Premiere26 Sept 2003
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1517 Sept 1984
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1230 Mar 1984
FranceFR
- TheatricalU25 Apr 1984
- TheatricalRe-release16 Aug 2000
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12West Germany20 Oct 1983
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The Right Stuff was released on 20 October 1983.
Audience reviews
2- F8/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
7/20/2023
**Overall, it's a good movie about the start of the space race.** The space race was one of the aspects that marked the intense rivalry between the USA and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. There was the notion that space could be a battleground or a zone of influence, as colonial territories had been decades before, and that the nuclear threat made it urgent to dominate space. That's why the Mercury Program w…
- W1/10
WilhelmVO
10/7/2026
As propaganda films go this one checks all the boxes. Let's go over a few of them. We've got some white male americans boasting about being the best at one thing or another. We've historical figures being portrayed as one dimensional caricatures. We've got some pretend germans with pretend fake german accents doing some pretend science. We've got some rewriting of history in favor of bad skits with attempted humour. …
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