Blair Brown, Clint Eastwood, Courtney B. Vance
A retired Air Force pilot--passed up by NASA when he was young--is recruited to retrieve a malfunctioning satellite launched years before. He is the only person with the expertise to fix the satellite...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 17, 2001
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Flixster Reviews (1,495)
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September 28, 2009Everyone makes mistakes and Clint made a big one here! I liked the ending though!
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August 9, 2009An enjoyable film, even if it's a bit unbelievable and hokey. Eastwood as director does a fabulous job and the cast is superb. Space Cowboy's is filled with irony and some nice one liners. The film is touching and inspiring.
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January 13, 2009Pretty hokey movie. Four old wanna-be astronauts have to go into space to save the world. One finds out he has terminal cancer, and of course, the movie finds a way for him to go out in style while doing his duty saving the USA.
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May 7, 2008High-flying fun. Soars through the air as an high-tech adventure with old-school heroes. It's a rocking good time. Thrilling, exciting and endlessly funny. Director, Clint Eastwood's best film in years. James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones and Clint Eastwood are magni...( read more)
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November 20, 2009Just Four old men(Great actors) having the time of thier lives.
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October 17, 2009Combine the future optimism Eastwood eagerly wanted to show this decade and combine it with the mindless patriotism and idiocy of Michael Bay. The result is Space Cowboys, one of the first films where Eastwood wants to show most of his supposedly badass style through making unint...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
May 10, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
January 1, 2000
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Space Cowboys is a satisfying science-fiction yarn. full review
January 1, 2000
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Without succumbing to bitterness or nostalgia or overstating the case for one generation's virtues, [Eastwood] and his cohorts mount a vigorous and funny defense of maturity. full review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
There's an abundance of charm and screen presence from the four veteran actors. full review
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November 26, 2008Hmm i wouldn't say its the best film ever.Lol.But surpringly an amazing film by my opinion.=)
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April 11, 2007Is that kid serious ??? Better than Unforgiven, Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby?? Do you know what calling this film a masterpiece implies???? It implies that all films on Earth are masterpieces, and that, I dont think they are.
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March 18, 2007ONE OF CLINT EASTWOOD'S MASTERPIECES !
BETTER THAN UNFORGIVEN, MYSTIC, AND MILLION DOLLAR BABY!
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