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Robert Altman

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Plot Summary

Oscar and Golden Globe-winner Robert Duvall ("Falling Down," "A Civil Action") and Oscar and Golden Globe-nominee James Caan ("The Godfather," "Misery") star in this science fiction thriller about the international race to put the first man on the moon. When an American lands and finds a wrecked Russian space ship, he begins a race against time, realizing that he must find shelter, or perish. Co-starring Michael Murphy ("Manhattan") and Ted Knight ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Too Close for Comfort").

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Customer Reviews

Nashville It Ain't

This was Robert Altman's first and last commercial studio picture. He fought with the producers and was, um, relieved of command before shoting was completed. There's nothing Altman-y about it. It's a very straightforward, lightly sci-fi story about a manned moon shot, released a year before the actual Apollo landing. The way it's done here is completely different from the way it actually happened, which is sort of interesting. But the conventional way the script plods along makes it all a bit of a drone. Duvall, Caan and the rest do competent acting jobs, of course, but the bland script doesn't give them a lot to work with. It's okay, but no great shakes.

one of the best early space flight films

A lot of young hollywood power house actors in one of the best US space flight films.
Before the right stuff and apollo 13 this film set the feeling of what it was like to be in NASA in the 60's

An excellent film

I remember watching Aldrin and Armstrong in the library of an elementary school in Camillus, NY. I have been enthralled by the concept of manned space travel ever since. The script is not great, but for me, the Caan and Duval do a great job with what they were handed. The movie does a great job of catching the urgency of getting to the moon first during the Cold War.

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