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Release Date:
10 October 1997 (USA)
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Tagline:
He's just taking up space! more
Plot:
Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come...
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(6 articles)
New Disney Chairman Found To Replace Dick Cook
(From Screen Rant. 6 October 2009, 11:21 AM, PDT)
Box Office: Almost Like Last Summer
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 28 October 1997)
(From Screen Rant. 6 October 2009, 11:21 AM, PDT)
Box Office: Almost Like Last Summer
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 28 October 1997)
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Painful To Watch
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Harland Williams | ... | Fred Z. Randall | |
| Jessica Lundy | ... | Julie Ford | |
| William Sadler | ... | 'Wild Bill' Overbeck | |
| Jeffrey DeMunn | ... | Paul Wick | |
| James Pickens Jr. | ... | Ben Stevens | |
| Beau Bridges | ... | Bud Nesbitt | |
| Peter Onorati | ... | Gary Hackman | |
| Don Lake | ... | Flight Surgeon | |
| Bill Jenkins | ... | Mission Controller (as William Arthur Jenkins) | |
| Ken Farmer | ... | Mission Controller | |
| Blake Boyd | ... | Gordon A. Peacock | |
| Brandon Kaplan | ... | Young Fred | |
| Paxton Whitehead | ... | British Reporter | |
| Don Armstrong | ... | Anchorman | |
| Pamela West | ... | Nun |
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Also Known As:
Rocket Man (USA) (alternative spelling)
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Rated PG for language, crude humor and thematic elements.
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95 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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The filmmakers spent nine weeks at the Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas, shooting at the famous Rocket Park (the gargantuan Building 9 that houses all of the spacecraft mock-ups for the ongoing shuttle missions) and Building 32, which houses the world's largest thermal vacuum chamber and simulates all conditions of outer space (except zero gravity).
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Continuity: When Fred starts braking wind in his space suit, Bill and Fred's helmets can be seen without glass, but later on you can see the reflection of the glass.
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Quotes:
Fred Randall:
You're alive Little Billy!
William Overbeck: Don't you ever call me little Billy!
Fred Randall: That's no way to talk to your mother!
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William Overbeck: Don't you ever call me little Billy!
Fred Randall: That's no way to talk to your mother!
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Referenced in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Seeing Red (#6.19)" (2002)
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Soundtrack:
Tossin' & Turnin'
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I'm in the minority on this, but I really disliked this film.
I generally like to watch Harland Williams. Typically, he's a fine straight man, but sometimes, his dry wit shows through. In Rocketman, however, he has allowed himself to be reduced to sophomoric antics worthy of any SNL reject (and I say that with all due respect) and appears to belong in a Rob Schneider movie.
Quite frankly, this was too painful to watch. The character wasn't funny. He was pathetically moronic...sad...not funny. This has been heralded as awesome, and hilarious, but neither is this funny, nor is it awe inspiring. It's just stupid, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
I was not entertained, nor was I amused with this film.
It rates a a 1.2/10 from...
the Fiend :.