Capricorn One

1978 • 123 minutes
4.2
64 reviews
65%
Tomatometer
PG
Rating
Eligible
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About this movie

Astronauts Charles Brubaker, John Walker, and Peter Willis (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston, respectively) are hailed as heroes when they become the first men to be rocketed to Mars. Actually the space travelers are as phony as their mission controller, Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook); to avert a failure that might cost the space program its funding, the Mars-bound vessel has been sent up without a crew, while the helmeted astronauts sit on a movie soundstage, pretending to be in outer space for the benefit of the TV cameras. Unfortunately the Mars ship crashes on arrival, making the astronaut trio thoroughly expendable. Investigative reporter Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould), who's smelled a rat all along, races against time to prevent NASA from "terminating" the hapless astronauts in order to cover up the conspiracy.
Rating
PG

Ratings and reviews

4.2
64 reviews
Paul Brown
March 29, 2016
...for empowering lunatic conspiracy nuts the world over, and for making scientific illiteracy seem ok. If you people would open your minds, even just a little bit, and try to actually learn something about science, technology, math or engineering, you wouldn't be so quickly dismissed as idiots.
Pamela Rice
November 29, 2015
Excellent movie. A rarity. It was brave to make this movie. Why haven't we gone back to the moon in almost 50 years? You'll have a few answers watching this movie.(Pamela R. / Nov 2015)
Tom Beaudry
April 29, 2018
Boycott anything to do with murderers "OJ Simpson is a punk and a murderer"!
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