Space Cowboys (2000)
Coming Out at 4 August 2000 in theaters.
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Space Cowboys is adventure drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. It stars Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older “ex-test pilots” who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite.
In 1958, two U.S. Air Force pilots and aspiring astronauts, William “Hawk” Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones) and Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), are testing a modified Bell X-2 when Hawk decides to break a height record. The plane stalls and they are forced to eject and then freefall to lower altitude, narrowly missing a Boeing B-50 Superfortress flying with navigator “Tank” Sullivan (James Garner) as they parachute to safety. On the ground, Frank punches Hawk for putting their lives at risk, but their fight is broken up by flight engineer Jerry O’Neill (Donald Sutherland). Their supervising officer, Bob Gerson (James Cromwell), chastises Hawk for his recklessness, before taking them to a press conference, where it is announced that the Air Force will no longer be involved in space flight tests as this has now been handed off to the newly created NASA, ending the four’s dreams of reaching space.
In the present day, NASA is tasked to prevent a Soviet communications satellite, IKON, from decaying out of orbit and crashing to Earth. The design of the satellite’s electronics is archaic and based on those of Skylab that Frank had developed. Bob, now a project manager at NASA, sends NASA engineer Sara Holland (Marcia Gay Harden) to request Frank’s help.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Ken Kaufman, Howard Klausner
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden, William Devane
Cast:
| Clint Eastwood | … | Frank Corvin |
| Tommy Lee Jones | … | Hawk Hawkins |
| Donald Sutherland | … | Jerry O’Neill |
| James Garner | … | Tank Sullivan |
| James Cromwell | … | Bob Gerson |
| Marcia Gay Harden | … | Sara Holland |
| William Devane | … | Eugene Davis |
| Loren Dean | … | Ethan Glance |
| Courtney B. Vance | … | Roger Hines |
| Barbara Babcock | … | Barbara Corvin |
| Rade Serbedzija | … | General Vostov |
| Blair Brown | … | Dr. Anne Caruthers |
| Jay Leno | … | Jay Leno |
| Nils Allen Stewart | … | Tiny |
| Deborah Jolly | … | Cocktail Waitress |
| Toby Stephens | … | Young Frank |
| Eli Craig | … | Young Hawk |
| John Asher | … | Young Jerry |
| Matt McColm | … | Young Tank |
| Billie Worley | … | Young Gerson |
| Chris Wylde | … | Jason |
| Anne Stedman | … | Jason’s Girlfriend |
| James MacDonald | … | Capcom |
| Kate McNeil | … | Female Astronaut #1 |
| Karen M. Waldron | … | Female Astronaut #2 |
| John Linton | … | Male Astronaut #1 |
| Mark Thomason | … | Mission Control Tech |
| Georgia Emelin | … | Jerry’s Girlfriend |
| Rick Scarry | … | State Department Official |
| Paul Pender | … | JBC Security Guard |
| Tim Halligan | … | Qualls |
| Manning Mpinduzi-Mott | … | Press Reporter #1 |
| Steve Monroe | … | Waiter |
| Jean-Michel Henry | … | Centrifuge Tech |
| Steven West | … | Construction Tech |
| Cooper Huckabee | … | Trajectory Engineer |
| Hayden Tank | … | Boy at NASA Tour |
| Jock MacDonald | … | Press Reporter (1958) |
| Gerald Emerick | … | T-38 Pilot |
| Renee Olstead | … | Little Girl |
| Don Michaelson | … | NASA Doctor |
| Artur Cybulski | … | Press Reporter #2 |
| Gordy Owens | … | Simsupe |
| Steve Stapenhorst | … | Vice President |
| Lauren Cohn | … | Teacher at NASA Tour |
| Michael Louden | … | Young Pilot #1 |
| Deborah Hope | … | Female Engineer |
| Jon Hamm | … | Young Pilot #2 |
| Lamont Lofton | … | KSC Guard |
| Aleksandr Kuznetsov | … | Russian Engineer |
| Erica Grant | … | Female Engineer |
| Chip Chinery | … | Tom |
| Craig Hosking | … | Pilot |
| Tone Loc | … | Photographer |
| Lisa Malone | … | Lisa Malone |
| Denise Marek-Plumb | … | Database Administrator |
| Jeannette Papineau | … | Bob’s Secretary |
| Kristin Quick | … | Young Museum Attendant |
| Heather Ryon | … | Churchgoer |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia