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"Kaufman has done a prodigious job of literary adaptation. He seems to have swallowed the book whole: it's extraordinary how much of Wolfe he gets on the screen, not just the events of the space race and the multilayered story lines but the double-edged, hyperbolic tone, which zig-zag in the blink of an eye from awe to archness, from savage satire to outright idolatry."-David Ansen, NEWSWEEK

"Kaufman has combined the resources and ingenuity of moviemaking with the free-wheeling, damn-the-conventions style of the New Journalism and come up with a generous, high-spirited look at the bravery and lunacy that wa that era."-Sheila Benson, LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Philip Kaufman's rousing funny screen adaptation...is probably the brightest and the best rookie/cadet movie ever made..."-Vincent Canby, NEW YORK TIMES

"That writer-director Philip Kaufman is able to get so much into a little more than three hours is impressive. That he also has organized this material into one of the best recent American movies is astonishing. 'The Right Stuff' announces Kaufman's arrival in the ranks of major directors."-Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN TIMES (Roger Ebert later called 'The Right Stuff' his second favorite film of the decade.)

"His work is a model of sensitive, sensible adaptation."-Richard Schickel, TIME

"Philip Kaufman brilliantly adapted and directed from Tom Wolfe's book. Kaufman's choices in casting were so on the mark one forgets one is watching a movie."-Bernard Drew, GANNETT NEWSPAPERS

" 'The Right Stuff' faithfully yet imaginatively brings to the screen Tom Wolfe's best-selling book. Director Kaufman takes a multi-character story that sprawls across two decades and makes it work. He has provided the exhilirating sense of disccovery that only the best movies possess.'-Stephen Schaefer, US MAGAZINE

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