Space Cowboys
Science Fiction
Warner Bros.  (2000) 130 mins PG-13

6.3 (23,824 votes)
They trained body and mind for America's leap into space. When the moment came, the brash flyboys of Team Daedalus were replaced. Now, 40 years later, another moment has come. And this time, it's all theirs.

Directing for the 22nd time and starring for the 42nd, Clint Eastwood leads a stellar cast into orbit in this exhilarating high-tech adventure. Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner join him as old-school test pilots whose grasp of outdated technology makes them the only ones able to repair a primitive, deorbiting Russian satellite that imperils Earth. Strap in for "some of the rightest stuff around" (The Wall Street Journal). With an irresistible payload of heart, humor and heroics, Space Cowboys is all-systems-go....

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Cast and Crew
Clint Eastwood  ......  Frank Corvin
Donald Sutherland  ......  Jerry O'Neill
Tommy Lee Jones  ......  Hawk Hawkins
James Garner  ......  Tank Sullivan
James Cromwell  ......  Bob Gerson
Marcia Gay Harden  ......  Sara Holland
Director  .....  Clint Eastwood
Producer  .....  Clint Eastwood; Andrew Lazar
Writer  .....  Kenneth Kaufman; Howard Klausner; Ken Kaufman
Notes
Filming Locations:
Agua Dulce, California, USA (more)

Trivia:
Clint Eastwood wrote the theme that plays at the beginning of the movie and it was worked into the score by Lennie Niehaus. (more)

Goofs:
Anachronisms: In 1958, young Hawk sings "Fly Me to the Moon" in a very Sinatra-esque fashion. Sinatra didn't record his signature version of this song until 9 June 1964, with the Count Basie Orchestra. (more)

Quotes:
Col. William 'Hawk' Hawkins: Flying brick... I like that. (more)

Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations (more)