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Space Cowboys

Year:

2000

Duration:

130 min

Genres:

Action | Adventure | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Clint Eastwood

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 6 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2000-08-04

Filming Locations: Santa Clarita, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $65,000,000

Opening Weekend: $18,093,776 (USA) (6 August 2000)

Gross: $90,454,043 (USA) (14 January 2001)

Cast

Actor

Character

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

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 (as Karen Mistal)

John Linton

Male Astronaut #1 (as John K. Linto)

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 (as J.M. Henry)

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 (as Alexander Kuznetsov)

Erica Grant

Female Engineer

Chip Chinery

Tom

Craig Hosking

Pilot (uncredited)

Lisa Malone

Lisa Malone (uncredited)

Denise Marek-Plumb

Database Administrator (uncredited)

Jeannette Papineau

Bobs Secretary (uncredited)

Kristin Quick

Young Museum Attendant (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner are all playing characters in the same age demographic (70's). In actuality, Jones is the youngest member of the group and was only 54 years old when this film was released.

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Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2000 (#09)

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Originally Sean Connery was supposed to play Jerry O'Neil and Jack Nicholson was supposed to play Tank Sullivan.

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Goofs

In the first space walk, Hawk is in free fall (i.e., "floating" in space) when he grabs a large lever and pulls it to open the hatch of the Soviet satellite. Unless he was attached to something massive when he did that, he would have rotated opposite the direction of the lever's rotation. Instead the lever moves but he doesn't. U.S. astronauts are equipped with special tools designed to account for the free fall environment. (The term "floating" is not strictly correct because it is not a fluid's buoyancy that permits astronauts to move freely in orbit. It is because they and the objects near them are constantly falling towards earth but their tangential speed is high enough to keep them in orbit.)

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Reflected in Frank's sunglasses when talking to Hawk by his biplane.

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Corvin and Hawkins are shown flying a Bell X-2 in 1958, but the X-2 program was actually canceled in 1956 due to a fatal accident.

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Quotes

Bob Gerson: Francis D. Corvin.

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Frank Corvin: Clock's ticking, Bob. And I'm only getting older.

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Young Pilot #1: Hey, Hawk. This guys wants a scary ride.

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