IMDb plot summary: Desperate to reach the moon first, N.A.S.A. sends a man and shelter separately, one-way. He must find it to survive. He can't return until Apollo is ready.
Directed by Robert Altman. Starring James Caan, Joanna Moore, Robert Duvall, and Barbara Baxley.
This is the most tedious landing-on-the-moon story I think I've ever seen. The fact that it was released just two years before the actual moon landing is fascinating, but the actual story itself is slow and tedious and largely about bureaucracy and procedures. There's very little tension or drama here, and even when they try to incorporate some late in the film, it resolves far too quickly and is disappointingly tame.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Countdown < Ballet Shoes
Countdown < The Hoober-Bloob Highway
Countdown > Hart's War
Countdown > Nick Nolte: No Exit
Countdown > 17 Miracles
Countdown > King of the Zombies
Countdown < A Man Called Peter
Countdown < Braveheart
Countdown > Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Countdown < Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Countdown < The Matrix Reloaded
Countdown > American Made
Final spot: #2260 out of 2961.
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