Plot
Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.
Release Year: 1997
Rating: 5.3/10 (4,744 voted)
Director:
Stuart Gillard
Stars: Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, William Sadler
Storyline Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.
Writers: Oren Aviv, Craig Mazin
Cast: Harland Williams
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Fred Z. Randall
Jessica Lundy
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Julie Ford
William Sadler
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'Wild Bill' Overbeck
Jeffrey DeMunn
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Paul Wick
James Pickens Jr.
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Ben Stevens
Beau Bridges
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Bud Nesbitt
Peter Onorati
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Gary Hackman
Don Lake
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Flight Surgeon
Bill Jenkins
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Mission Controller
(as William Arthur Jenkins)
Ken Farmer
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Mission Controller
Blake Boyd
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Gordon A. Peacock
Brandon Kaplan
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Young Fred
Paxton Whitehead
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British Reporter
Don Armstrong
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Anchorman
Pamela West
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Nun
Taglines:
One Man's Dream... Is NASA's Nightmare!
Release Date: 10 October 1997
Filming Locations: Houston, Texas, USA
Opening Weekend: $4,472,937
(USA)
(12 October 1997)
(1836 Screens)
Gross: $15,448,043
(USA)
(4 January 1998)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Ulysses (the chimpanzee in the movie) was played by Raven, a three-year-old female chimpanzee.
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes:
When Fred and Bill share oxygen in their spacesuits, the front shields of their helmets are not pulled down.
Quotes: Paul Wick:
Reconsider the mission? Sure...
[pretends to think]
Paul Wick:
Okay, it's still on.
User Review
Icht schlicken dokken, lug dee lug......
Rating:
I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard during a movie. Harland
Williams is a genius. "C'mon all you Chinese....." Who comes up with this
stuff??? I got the feeling that the directors and writers just told
Williams to work around the script and improvise whatever he wanted? Some
of this stuff is so off the wall, you wonder just how much was scripted. And
this is not your typical Jerry Lewis slapstick. Williams has a great deal of
pure
talent. Anyway watch it and just enjoy the wonderful absurdity that is
Rocket Man.
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