Space Cowboys

Theatrical Release Date: 2000 08 04 (USA)

UPC: 883929078080

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Language]

Summary: In this adventure drama, four men passed over by the space program get one last chance to be heroes and live out their dreams. Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), Hawk Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland), and Tank Sullivan (James Garner) were top pilots within an elite Air Force squadron and on the fast track to becoming the first Americans in space in the early 1950s. However, when NASA was established, the pilots were cut out of the loop; Corvin went on to become an aerospace engineer, Hawkins continued on as a freelance pilot, O'Neill became an astrophysicist with a sideline in designing roller coasters, and Sullivan took up preaching as a Baptist minister. Years later, a Russian satellite's guidance system has started to malfunction, and it is expected to crash into the Earth within a matter of weeks. The system is identical to the one Corvin designed for Skylab, so NASA head Bob Gerson (James Cromwell) asks Corvin to help him with the emergency mission to repair the satellite. Corvin agrees under one condition -- that he be sent up to do the repairs himself, with Hawkins, O'Neill, and Sullivan as his crew. Clint Eastwood directed Space Cowboys while also starring as Frank Corvin; his supporting cast includes Marcia Gay Harden, Courtney B. Vance, Loren Dean, and William Devane. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Comedy Drama

Awards: Best Sound Effects Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound Effects Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: cc
Back to the ranch: on location with cast and crew and NASA consultants
The effects: conversations with visual effects supervisor Michael Owens and his collaborators
Tonight on Leno: expanded version of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno sequence
Up close with the editor: a conversation with Joel Cox
Theatrical trailer

Space Cowboys

Format: DVD

Release Date: 06/01/2010

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 130 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Space Cowboys
1. Where We're Going [3:40]
2. Pushed to the Limit [2:50]
3. First American into Space [1:43]
4. The Ikon Dilemma [4:01]
5. NASA Calling [5:40]
6. Frannk's Proposal [5:30]
7. Word From on High [2:06]
8. Riding Again [2:36]
9. Scare in the Air [2:42]
10. Same Stubborn Jackass [2:47]
11. Four Boys and a Lady [2:09]
12. Our Little Problem [1:21]
13. Gene's Rules [4:39]
14. Medical Exam [2:55]
15. Physically Misfit [3:25]
16. Waiting For Hawk [1:42]
17. Who First? [2:24]
18. Picking Fights [4:10]
19. Socking it to 'Em [3:47]
20. Time Hawk Was Afraid [3:09]
21. The Ripe Stuff [4:01]
22. The Word on Hawk [3:21]
23. The Whole Team [:40]
24. Liftoff [4:02]
25. Encountering Ikon [6:09]
26. Capture [4:20]
27. Hidden Cargo [2:42]
28. Ethan on His Own [5:31]
29. Ikon Awakens [4:12]
30. Arresting the Fall [2:34]
31. Hawk: the Only Way [4:08]
32. To the Moon and Beyond [3:36]
33. Flying the Brick In [2:34]
34. Team Landing [4:08]
35. Lunar View [5:18]
36. End Credits [2:03]

Karl Williams

An unusually populist comedy for a director of such normally refined tastes, this geriatric space adventure from Clint Eastwood spoofs the aging of the Baby Boomer generation with broad appeal, but flags in its poorly structured third act. While Space Cowboys gets off to an interesting start in a flashback sequence that casts lookalike actors with their voices dubbed by the film's stars, the story's central conceit (four aging would-be astronauts getting one last chance to blast off) is exhaustively rehashed, making for a tiring set-up. Once the quartet of creaking seniors is in training for their mission, however, the film finds its legs and purpose, sending up the idea of vitamin-popping oldsters rediscovering their right stuff with zeal and relish. When its characters finally achieve orbit, the film loses its way again, stumbling with a subplot involving an egotistical young colleague who botches a job and the unexpected illness of a central figure. Nevertheless, Space Cowboys is about two-thirds of a fine and enjoyably risible comedy that is a bounce back for Eastwood after stumbling badly with his last directorial effort, True Crime (1999). ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Cooper Huckabee  Actor 
Alexandr Kuznetzov  Actor 
James MacDonald  Actor 
Deborah Jolly  Actor 
Chris Wylde  Actor 
Jock MacDonald  Actor 
Stephen West  Actor 
J.M. Henry  Actor 
Eli Craig  Actor 
Paul Pender  Actor 
Jay Leno  Actor 
Michael Louden  Actor 
Renee Olstead  Actor 
Manning Mpinduzi-Mott  Actor 
Karen Mistal  Actor 
Rick Scarry  Actor 
Nils Allen Stewart  Actor 
Erica Grant  Actor 
Mark Thomason  Actor 
Arthur Cybulski  Actor 
Steve Stapenhorst  Actor 
Lamont Lofton  Actor 
Hayden Tank  Actor 
Don Michaelson  Actor 
John Linton  Actor 
John Asher  Actor 
Lauren Cohn  Actor 
Gordon Owens  Actor 
Tim Halligan  Actor 
Kate McNeil  Actor 
Matt McColm  Actor 
Gerald Emerick  Actor 
Anne Stedman  Actor 
Deborah Hope  Actor 
Steve Monroe  Actor 
Georgia Emelin  Actor 
Toby Stephens  Actor 
Jon Hamm  Actor 
Billie Worley  Actor 
Clint Eastwood  Director 
Clint Eastwood  Producer 
Ken Kaufman  Screenwriter 
Lennie Niehaus  Composer (Music Score) 
Andrew Lazar  Producer 
Tom Rooker  Executive Producer 
Howard Klausner  Screenwriter 
Clint Eastwood  Actor 
Tommy Lee Jones  Actor 
Donald Sutherland  Actor 
James Garner  Actor 
James Cromwell  Actor 
Marcia Gay Harden  Actor 
William Devane  Actor 
Loren Dean  Actor 
Courtney B. Vance  Actor 
Barbara Babcock  Actor 
Rade Serbedzija  Actor 
Blair Brown  Actor 

Country: USA