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Space Cowboys
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Space Cowboys is a 2000 American science fiction, adventure, and action comedy film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. The cast includes Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Q103784. Warner Bros. Entertainment distributed the film, which was also produced by Village Roadshow Pictures, Malpaso Productions, Mad Chance, and Clipsal Films. The narrative is set in Houston, with filming taking place in Florida.
The film has a runtime of 126 or 130 minutes, depending on the source. It was released on August 4, 2000, and is available in video on demand format. The main subjects include old age, the Cold War, and a tumor. Lennie Niehaus composed the music, while Jack N. Green served as director of photography and Joel Cox as film editor.
Review scores for the film vary, with assessments including 6.8/10, 78%, 73/100, and 6.5. The film has a budget of 65,000,000 and generated revenue of 128,900,000. Its tagline is "Space will never be the same."
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6.4Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Cast
- Clint Eastwood as Frank Corvin
- Tommy Lee Jones as Hawk Hawkins
- Donald Sutherland as Jerry O'Neill
- James Garner as Tank Sullivan
- James Cromwell as Bob Gerson
- Marcia Gay Harden as Sara Holland
Themes
- nasa
- space travel
- space western
- astronaut
- elderly
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Clint Eastwood
- Written by
- Ken Kaufman Howard Klausner
- Produced by
- Andrew Lazar Clint Eastwood
- Starring
- Clint Eastwood Tommy Lee Jones Donald Sutherland James Garner Marcia Gay Harden William Devane Loren Dean Courtney B. Vance James Cromwell
- Cinematography
- Jack N. Green
- Edited by
- Joel Cox
- Music by
- Lennie Niehaus
- Production companies
- Village Roadshow Pictures Clipsal Films Malpaso Productions Mad Chance Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release date
- August 4, 2000 ( 2000-08-04 )
- Running time
- 130 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $60–65 million
- Box office
- $128.9 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- tumor
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Cast member
- Matt McColm
- Composer
- Lennie Niehaus
- Producer
- Clint Eastwood
- Cinematographer
- Jack N. Green
- Narrative location
- Houston
- Filming location
- Florida
- Duration
- 126
- FilmAffinity ID
- 726859
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2000-11-02
- film editor
- Joel Cox
- title
- Space Cowboys
- production designer
- Henry Bumstead
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 73/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Space Cowboys is a 2000 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. It stars Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four aging former test pilots who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite. It was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 4, 2000, received positive reviews from critics, and was a box-office success by grossing $128.9 million against a $60–65 million budget.
Plot
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