Space Cowboys | 
| Actors: Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  174 reviews
Sales Rank: 1736
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.3
MPN: D18722D
ISBN: 0790752271
UPC: 085391872221
EAN: 9780790752273
ASIN: B00005ALS2
Theatrical Release Date: August 4, 2000
Release Date: April 17, 2001
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Product Description
Clint Eastwood teams up with some old friends to make SPACE COWBOYS, a rollicking motion picture that wraps action, comedy, and science fiction into one neat package. Eastwood plays Frank Corvin, a former air force pilot who was shunned from flying into space in 1958 after NASA was created. Forty years later, when a Russian satellite appears to be headed for a collision with Earth, Corvin finally gets his chance. He bribes his arch rival Bob Gerson (James Cromwell) into letting his team go into space to repair the satellite, on the condition that they pass the physical. However, passing the physical isn't so easy for aging veterans Jerry O'Neil (Donald Sutherland), Tank Sullivan (James Garner), and Hawk Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), who, while still mentally sharp, aren't in the best of physical shape. Nonetheless, they manage to fill all the requirements. Ignoring the two cocky upstarts who have been sent along to back them up, the old-timers blast off and head straight for the satellite. But when they get there, the realization that the satellite is actually carrying six nuclear warheads changes the course of the mission, endangering the lives of the astronauts as well as the citizens of America. With exceptional special effects and a breezy tone, SPACE COWBOYS is one of Eastwood's most entertaining films to date.
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This slice of cornball Americana is so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and costar Clint Eastwood manages to turn what might have been ludicrous into a jubilant tribute to age and experience, and Space Cowboys succeeds as two movies in one--a comedy about retired pilots given one last shot at glory and an Apollo 13-like thriller with all the requisite heroics. With a dream cast of Hollywood vets playing old farts described in tabloids as "The Ripe Stuff," the movie jumps from a 1958 prologue (establishing their lost bid for space travel) to 40-plus years later, when the retired Air Force aces (Eastwood, James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones) volunteer to rescue a falling Russian satellite that only Eastwood's character can repair. It turns out that Russky bird is a cold war leftover equipped with live nuclear warheads, and Space Cowboys revs up to a rousing climax in which our heroes prove their mettle. But first the comedy: watching these codgers struggle to pass NASA's physical tests is a total hoot, with running gags about wrinkles, dentures, and oysters for sagging libidos. (Sutherland is the scene-stealer, but they're all having a blast.) Once in space, the movie gets down to business, and the visual-effects wizards at Industrial Light and Magic provide stunning vistas from Earth's orbit; a shot looking down at the boot of Italy is particularly beautiful. A subplot involving a weasely NASA administrator (James Cromwell) is rather perfunctory, but it hardly matters. Space Cowboys earns its wings, once again demonstrating Eastwood's comfort with any genre he chooses. --Jeff Shannon
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| Customer Reviews: Read 169 more reviews...
 Space Cowboys July 1, 2009
Shirl A. Fauth (York,PA)
Great movie for family. We watched it 2 times. We give it 2 Thumbs Up.
 Actors Take Center Stage April 29, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
This was a pretty enjoyable tale of "The Ripe Stuff," as one early reviewer put it: four old geezers going up into space to help save a project they had a hand in years ago.
It's pretty long at 130 minutes but the four diverse characters help keep your interest. Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner are quite a foursome. Add Marcia Gay Harden to the mix, along with Loren Dean, Courtney Vance and James Cromwell and you have a fabulous cast.
This is a drama but one in which there is a fair amount of comedy and some romance. There are some Hollywood cliches (a suspect boss, arguing pals going back-and-forth all the time, a weak minister, etc.) but they aren't as blatant as usual.
The storytelling is pretty good but the real show here is not the story but that group of veteran actors. One joke was overplayed: Sutherland and the size of genitals. Not real classy stuff but, overall, the movie is fine.
Cowboys Rock April 18, 2009
Sharon L. Constantine (WA)
I love this movie. The plot is good the acting too. It keeps my interest. Enough humor to keep it fun with a touch of sadness and a commentary on taking yourself or your job too seriously.
Space Cowboys (Blue Ray) April 8, 2009
Curtis Jadin (Caldwell, Idaho USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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Space Cowboys (2000)-Really great! April 4, 2009
Keith Mirenberg (www.spaceanimations.org)
Space Cowboys (2000)was a really well done movie that rated five stars with this reviewer. This film was really fine and the outstanding special effects, story line, humor, and basic premise are all very excellent and plausible extensions of reality.
A movie like this one should have been made long ago about the actual early space pioneers who piloted the X-1, X-2, through the X-15. When something needed to happen aboard these craft the pilot had to make it happen and often only by the seat of his pants.
Although some well deserved credit has been given to Chuck Yeager, and some others who made it to the Apollo Program (i.e., Neil Armstrong, White, etc.) none of the very early rocket plane pilots have been aboard the Shuttle gaining public attention (with the possible exception of Mercury Astronaut John Glenn, America's first man in orbit aboard the Atlas ICBM) and they are not mentioned nearly enough in modern discussions of space flight.
The quality of this film's special effects was excellent! For those who think that the altitude record of the X-15 only brought her pilots to the threshold of space, civilians will shortly be paying a big price tag to essentially repeat (give or take) the altitude record set by that aircraft aboard Virgin Galactic's space plane. They are also being told in the interest of good marketing that they will travel in a sub-orbital spacecraft. This is exactly what the X-15 was, only the first to my knowledge, the first in the world.
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