# Les pionniers de l'espace (2000)

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**Original title**: *Space Cowboys*
**Runtime**: 130 min
**Genres**: Action, Adventure, Thriller
**Directed by**: Clint Eastwood
**Written by**: Ken Kaufman, Howard Klausner
**Starring**: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden

> *Space will never be the same.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Florida scrubland, 1958, the cramped nose-cone of a decommissioned rocket.

Four silver-haired pilots who once dreamed of Mars now flip burgers at a trailer park. A rogue Russian bird starts plummeting through Kansas cornfields.

Eastwood’s geriatric quartet grins, throttles up, and discovers NASA forgot the manual on late-life courage.

**Mood tags**: cozy, playful, uplifting

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