from Warner Brothers
Directed by
Clint
Eastwood
Starring
Clint
Eastwood (Frank Corvin)
Tommy
Lee Jones (Frank "Hawk" Hawkins)
Donald
Sutherland (Jerry O'Neil)
James
Garner (Tank Sullivan)
James
Cromwell (Bob Gerson)
Loren
Dean (Ethan Glance)
Courtney
B. Vance (Roger Hines)
William
Devane (Eugene Davis)
Georgia Emelin (Cherie)
Marcia Gay Harden
Renee Olstead (Renee)
Rade Serbedzija
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
John Mallory Asher
Gerald Emerick
Toby Stephens (Young Frank Corvin)
Mark Thomason (Astronaut #2)
Chris Wylde (Jason)
Written by
Ken Kaufman
Howard Klausner
Original Music by
Lennie
Niehaus
Rated: 
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 After NASA
learns that a satellite launched in the 1960s has malfunctioned
and will cause a disaster when it reenters Earth's atmosphere,
they decide the only course of action is to ask the man most
familiar with the old technology to go up in the Shuttle and
repair it. The 60-year-old astronaut agrees only on one condition:
that his three buddies, all former test pilots who were overlooked
by NASA for astronaut training back in the '60s can also fly
up with him.
In 1958, the members of Team Daedalus, a group of top Air
Force test pilots, were ready to serve their country as the first
Americans in space. When NASA replaced the Air Force for outer
atmospheric testing, Team Daedalus was pushed aside and a chimpanzee
got the honor. The team retired, but the dream of going into
space never died.
Now, over four decades later, the Russian satellite Ikon has
suffered a systems failure that Russian officials insist will
cause a total communications blackout in their country. NASA
bureaucrat Bob Gerson (JAMES CROMWELL) stumbles toward a solution
and finds it in a very unexpected place. Since Ikon has
the same guidance system as early American satellite Skylab,
Skylab's designer should know how to fix Ikon. But Gerson already
knows the designer.
Now retired, Frank Corvin (CLINT EASTWOOD) is the one man
alive who can do the job. This is the chance of a lifetime but
Frank won't take it unless he can bring the only crew he trusts
to do the job with him. Team Daedalus is back in action.
Frank "Hawk" Hawkins (TOMMY LEE JONES), Jerry O'Neil
(DONALD SUTHERLAND) and Tank Sullivan (JAMES GARNER) stretch
the rules and strain the patience of Eugene Davis (WILLIAM DEVANE),
their Flight Director, as well as their much younger counterparts,
Ethan Glance (LOREN DEAN) and Roger Hines (COURTNEY B. VANCE).
Seasoned veterans with an attitude, they relish the opportunity
to show their stuff. They will be tested and they will need every
ounce of strength and resourcefulness to make it through their
abbreviated training, complete their mission and rescue Ikon.
The heroic challenge has arrived. Let the countdown begin.
Warner Bros. Pictures in association with Village Roadshow
Pictures-Clipsal Film Partnership presents Space Cowboys, a high
tech adventure about determination, toughness and second chances.
Filmed with the full cooperation of NASA, with segments produced
both at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, and the Kennedy
Space Center in Orlando, FL, Space Cowboys is produced by Malpaso
Productions and Mad Chance Productions. The film stars Clint
Eastwood ("True Crime," "Unforgiven"), Tommy
Lee Jones ("Rules of Engagement," "Double Jeopardy"),
Donald Sutherland ("A Time To Kill," "JFK")
and James Garner ("Maverick," TV's "Rockford Files")
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