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Space Cowboys (2000)
6.3
Ratings: 6.3/10 from 37,676 users
Metascore:
73/100
Reviews: 315 user | 164 critic | 36 from Metacritic.com When a retired engineer is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space. Director:Clint Eastwood |
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| Clint Eastwood | ... | ||
| Tommy Lee Jones | ... | ||
| Donald Sutherland | ... | ||
| James Garner | ... | ||
| James Cromwell | ... | ||
| Marcia Gay Harden | ... | ||
| William Devane | ... | ||
| Loren Dean | ... | ||
| Courtney B. Vance | ... | ||
| Barbara Babcock | ... | ||
| Rade Serbedzija | ... | ||
| Blair Brown | ... | ||
| Jay Leno | ... |
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| Nils Allen Stewart | ... | ||
| Deborah Jolly | ... |
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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 has a pleasant retired life in a desert home with his wife. The pilot, who had a penchant for pushing the test planes to their limits, is now a daredevil crop-duster. The navigator is a Baptist minister. The designer is a womanizing roller coaster designer. Their former boss is now a mission leader in Nasa and still as despicable as in his younger days. It is here that the main story begins. It seems that an old Russian "communications" satellite is about to crash back into the Earth's atmosphere and somehow American technology designed by Eastwood's character has ended up as the guiding system... Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
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Budget:
$65,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$18,093,776 (USA) (6 August 2000) (2805 Screens)Gross:
$90,454,043 (USA) (14 January 2001)Company Credits
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Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: Okay, bad guy, we're taking this outside! I want to whip your asymmetrical sagging ass! Get out there in that parking lot!
[Frank and Hawk step outside]
Jerry O'Neill: Here we go again...
Tank Sullivan: I've got ten on Frank!
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Originally Sean Connery was supposed to play Jerry O'Neil and Jack Nicholson was supposed to play Tank Sullivan. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: When Gerson makes the surprise announcement that a chimp will be the first to go into space, the four Air Force pilots, Corvin, Hawkins, O'Neill, and Sullivan, are wearing A-2 leather flying jackets. While leather jackets were authorized before and during World War II, by 1958 they were no longer a part of the Air Force uniform. Leather jackets were re-introduced into the Air Force in 1988. Navy pilots continued to wear leather jackets during the 1950s, but none of the characters in this movie were Navy pilots. See more »Quotes
[challenging Frank to fight]Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: Okay, bad guy, we're taking this outside! I want to whip your asymmetrical sagging ass! Get out there in that parking lot!
[Frank and Hawk step outside]
Jerry O'Neill: Here we go again...
Tank Sullivan: I've got ten on Frank!
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