Space Cowboys

Aug 4, 2000

2h 10m

★ 6.4

Space will never be the same.

Overview

Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.

Genres

Action

Adventure

Thriller

Production Companies

Village Roadshow Pictures

Malpaso Productions

Mad Chance

Clipsal Films

Warner Bros. Pictures

Space Cowboys Trailers

Cast

Frank Corvin

Clint Eastwood

Hawk Hawkins

Tommy Lee Jones

Jerry O`Neill

Donald Sutherland

Tank Sullivan

James Garner

Bob Gerson

James Cromwell

Sara Holland

Marcia Gay Harden

Eugene Davis

William Devane

Ethan Glance

Loren Dean

Roger Hines

Courtney B. Vance

Barbara Corvin

Barbara Babcock

General Vostov

Rade Šerbedžija

Dr. Anne Caruthers

Blair Brown

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