The Right Stuff (1983) Reviews & Ratings

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The Right Stuff reviews

The Right Stuff holds a 7.4/10 average from 1,009 TMDB ratings.

**Overall, it's a good movie about the start of the space race.** The space race was one of the aspects that marked the intense rivalry between the USA and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. There was the notion that space could be a battleground or a zone of influence, as colonial territories had been decades before, and that the nuclear threat made it urgent to dominate space. That's why the Mercury Program was…
— Filipe Manuel Neto (8/10)

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.

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