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RocketMan

Year:

1997

Duration:

95 min

Genres:

Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi

IMDB rate:

5.9

Director:

Stuart Gillard

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1997-10-10

Filming Locations: Houston, Texas, USA

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $4,472,937 (USA) (12 October 1997)

Gross: $15,448,043 (USA) (4 January 1998)

Cast

Actor

Character

James Pickens Jr.

RocketMan

Harland Williams

Fred Z. Randall

Jessica Lundy

Julie Ford

William Sadler

'Wild Bill' Overbeck

Jeffrey DeMunn

Paul Wick

Beau Bridges

Bud Nesbitt

Peter Onorati

Gary Hackman

Don Lake

Flight Surgeon

Bill Jenkins

Mission Controller (as William Arthur Jenkins)

Ken Farmer

Mission Controller

Blake Boyd

Gordon A. Peacock

Brandon Kaplan

Young Fred

Paxton Whitehead

British Reporter

Don Armstrong

Anchorman

Pamela West

Nun

Marjorie Carroll

Nun

Claire Birnbaum

School Kid #1

Sean Tweedley

NASA Lab Tech

Cindy Hogan

Reporter

Felicia Griffin

Reporter

Lidia Porto

Gary's Nurse

Richard Dillard

The President

Gil Glasgow

Bartender

Franklin Chang-Diaz

NASA Scientist

Jose Guillermo Figueroa

Journalist

Bryan Lee McGlothin

Mission Controler

Edie Mirman

Chimp Voice (as Edie Mir)

Raven

Ulysees (chimpanzee astronaut)

Charlotte Biggs

Astronaut / Bar Patron (uncredited)

Dale Wade Davis

NASA Colonel (uncredited)

Shelley Duvall

Mrs. Randall (uncredited)

Al Hayter

Nasa Tech (uncredited)

Michael Honig

Mission Control (Extra) (uncredited)

C. Anthony Jackson

Mission Controller (uncredited)

Gene Kato

Nasa Technician (uncredited)

Alan Martin

Stand In (uncredited)

Brent Mitchell

NASA Lab Tech (uncredited)

Tony Myrick

Bar Patron (uncredited)

Gailard Sartain

Mr. Randall (uncredited)

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Trivia

For the surface of Mars, the filmmakers shot in Moab, Utah, where they found giant cliffs, red rocks, a lack of vegetation, and the overall scale of what could be a distant planet.

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The filmmakers spent nine weeks at the Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas, shooting at the famous Rocket Park (the gargantuan Building 9 that houses all of the spacecraft mock-ups for the ongoing shuttle missions) and Building 32, which houses the world's largest thermal vacuum chamber and simulates all conditions of outer space (except zero gravity).

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When Randall is singing "He's got the whole world in his hands", on the world broadcast and starts faking singing in foreign languages, he says in French: "Je suis le papillon sur la table", which translates to "I am the butterfly on the table".

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Goofs

When Fred starts braking wind in his space suit, Bill and Fred's helmets can be seen without glass, but later on you can see the reflection of the glass.

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When the Mars Shuttle is on the launchpad, it is obviously a model shuttle redesigned for the movie, with the name "Aries". When the shuttle launches it is clearly the real space shuttle, and in one scene during the launch you can see the name "Endeavour".

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In the scene where Randall leaves the Mars Lander to save Ulysses and Overbeck, Randall enters the airlock and goes off-screen. At that moment Julie turns around to look out the window of the Lander, but oddly enough, a grasshopper seems to be on the lower back of Julie's spacesuit.

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Quotes

Fred Randall: They say that when a mother's child is trapped the rush of her adrenaline gives her the strength of 20 men. Alright Commander call me Mommy!

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Fred Randall: It wasn't me!

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Fred Randall: You're alive Little Billy!

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