The Right Stuff did poorly at the box office upon its release, though critics loved it. Christopher Nolan did too: he has called it “an almost perfect movie.” ...

The Right Stuff did poorly at the box office upon its release, though critics loved it. Christopher Nolan did too: he has called it “an almost perfect movie.” ...

Philip Kaufman’s 1983 adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff is a rare creature in that it’s borderline perfect, from tone to casting to miles-ahead-of-the-curve effects work.

The Right Stuff was originally a scripted series made for National Geographic, but the adaptation of the Tom Wolfe book (which was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1983) is now coming to Disney+ ...

The saga of the Mercury 7 was famously depicted in the 1979 book “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe and then the 1983 movie of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman.

The original film review of "The Right Stuff" from Oct. 21, 1983, by Sheila Benson.

It's a very different beast from Philip Kaufman's " The Right Stuff " (1983), at the time Hollywood's most celebrated ode to NASA's first decade in orbit. There, the focus was very much on the ...

Cruise was in three releases in 1983: “Risky Business” (yes, the one where he’s in his underwear playing air guitar), “All the Right Moves” (a Tom Cruise title if ever there was one ...

It's a very different beast from Philip Kaufman's "The Right Stuff" (1983), at the time Hollywood's most celebrated ode to NASA's first decade in orbit.