Space Cowboys Review

Space Cowboys

Release Date: 5th October 2000 - Australia

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures (presents)

Village Roadshow Pictures (in association with)

Clipsal Films (in association with)
Mad Chance
Malpaso Productions

Distribution 

Roadshow Distribution

Genre: Action/Adventure

Rating: PG

Runtime: 125 minutes


Budget: $60,000,000

Box Office Gross:

$128,884,132 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

It was 1958. Team
Daedalus, the elite test
pilot team of the US Air
Force, was training to
become the first

Americans in space.
But at the last minute,
NASA cancelled the
mission, sending a
chimpanzee into space
instead. History has
forgotten Team Daedalus.

Until now...

NASA has intercepted a

distress call from Russian

space control - a giant

Soviet-era satellite is on

the verge of crashing into

the Earth, with the

potential for a global power

outage...

Only one team of astronauts

is competent enough to

carry out the dangerous

mission, and they are

familiar with Sputnik's

outdated technology.

Team Daedalus captain

Frank Corvin and his crew

are finally on their way

to space, albeit more than

forty years late.

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 - Himself
Nils Allen Stewart - Tiny
Chris Wylde - Jason

Anna Steid - Jason's Girlfriend

Toby Stephens - Young Frank

Corvin

Eli Craig - Young Hawk Hawkins

John Mallory Asher - Young Jerry O'Neill

Matt McColm - Young Tank Sullivan

Billie Worley - Young Bob Gerson

Jon Hamm - Young Pilot #2

Crew

Producer/Director - Clint Eastwood

Writers - Ken Kaufman and

Howard Klausner
Executive Producer/Second Assistant Director -

Tom Rooker

Producer - Andrew Lazar

Casting Director - Phyllis Huffman

Production Designer - Henry Bumstead

Art Director - Jack G. Taylor Jr.

Set Decorator - Richard C. Goddard
Costume Designer - Deborah Hopper

Director of Photography - Jack N. Green

Underwater Director of Photography - Pete Romano

Camera/Steadicam Operator - Stephen S. Campanelli

Camera/Spacecam Operator - Hans Bjerno

Unit Production Manager - Patricia Churchill

First Assistant Director - Robert Lorenz
Second/Aerial Unit Director - Craig Hosking

Additional Unit Director (Uncredited)/

Visual Effects Supervisor - Michael Owens

Stunt Coordinator - Buddy Van Horn

Special Effects Supervisor - Joe Fraizer

Additional Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM -

Scott Farrar
Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM -

Pablo Helman
Visual Effects Senior Producer: ILM -

Judith Weaver

Visual Effects Producer: ILM - Dana Friedman

Visual Effects Director of Photography: ILM -

Martin Rosenberg

CG Supervisor: ILM - Barry Armour

Compositing Supervisor: ILM - Jon Alexander

Model Supervisor: ILM - Steve Gawley

Chief Model Makers: ILM - Barbara Affonso,

Bryan Dewe, Jon Foreman, Brian Gernand,

Lorne Peterson and Adam Savage

Lead Digital Matte Artist: ILM - Paul Huston

Editor - Joel Cox

Lead R&D Technical: ILM - R. Christopher White

Assistant Editors - Michael Cipriano,

Gary Roach and Don Roth

Supervising Sound Editors - Bub Asman

and Alan Robert Murray
Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer -
Christopher Boyes

Sound Designer - David Farmer

Sound Effects Editors - Howard S. M. Neiman,

Gary Krivacek, Steve Mann, Glenn Hoskinson,

Jason King, Anthony R. Milch, Teresa Eckton,

Ken Fischer, Phil Benson and Scott Guitteau

Assistant Sound Editors - Shawn Egan,

Beaudine Credle and Coya Elliott

Sound Mixer - Walt Martin

Re-Recording Mixer - Michael Semanick

Supervising ADR Editor - Juno J. Ellis
Music - Lennie Niehaus

Awards

2001 Academy Awards
Best Sound Editing - Alan Robert Murray and
Bub Asman (Nominated)

Review

In 2002, I first saw the movie SPACE COWBOYS on pay TV when it was on at midday, and then I forgot its existence as I recently became a film critic. In 2014, I was interested in its director and one of its leading actors, Clint Eastwood, since I watched a few of his classic westerns. So, I revisited this movie. In all fairness, it's the old school that's put the old school into this space-age action drama. SPACE COWBOYS is daring to believe that the second chances are that people don't have an expiry date and that it's crucial to stay young in heart and mind.

The movie can be unoriginal, and the story sometimes feels like I have already seen it before. It is more than being made up for in return for some of its good points like the humour and the acting pair of Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones, who at best are the cantankerous old spacemen and bounce each other well. James Garner and Donald Sutherland are other veterans who have pulled off this acting style. The visuals were a hard-copied blend of practical and CGI effects that can create a sequence in space as other movies can, as in today's modern films such as Gravity.

Phenomenally, it was enjoyable for all of us. We would never have seen this film without the combined talents of Clint, Tommy, James and Donald. It's not a space western. I'm sure this title will mislead you from falling through that.

Star rating: (7/10) Good Movie

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