Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
RocketMan
RocketMan

RocketMan

He's just taking up space!

Genres

ComedyFamilyScience Fiction

OverView

An accident-prone and obnoxious geek joins a NASA space mission to Mars. During the flight, he manages to put himself and the entire crew in jeopardy, but is in danger of emerging as a hero when his new colleagues need him to save them from the unforgiving surface of the red planet.

Others

Budget

$16000000

Revenue

$15448043

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

95 mins

Rating

5.2/10

Release Date

10 October 1997

Country

United States of America

Cast

Harland Williams

Harland Williams

Fred Z. Randall

Jessica Lundy

Jessica Lundy

Julie Ford

William Sadler

William Sadler

Wild Bill Overbeck

Jeffrey DeMunn

Jeffrey DeMunn

Paul Wick

James Pickens Jr.

James Pickens Jr.

Ben Stevens

Beau Bridges

Beau Bridges

Bud Nesbitt

Peter Onorati

Peter Onorati

Gary Hackman

Don Lake

Don Lake

Le Chirurgien du Vol

Bill Jenkins

Bill Jenkins

Mission Controller

Ken Farmer

Ken Farmer

Mission Controller

Blake Boyd

Blake Boyd

Gordon A. Peacock

Paxton Whitehead

Paxton Whitehead

British Reporter

Sean Tweedley

Sean Tweedley

NASA Lab Tech

Cindy Hogan

Cindy Hogan

Reporter

Lidia Porto

Lidia Porto

Gary's Nurse

Richard Dillard

Richard Dillard

The President

Gil Glasgow

Gil Glasgow

Bartender

Shelley Duvall

Shelley Duvall

Mrs. Randall (uncredited)

Gailard Sartain

Gailard Sartain

Mr. Randall (uncredited)

Similar Movies

7.6

Planet of the Apes

February 1968 •English

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

7.6

Gattaca

September 1997 •English

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

8.1

2001: A Space Odyssey

April 1968 •English

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

6.8

Armageddon

July 1998 •English

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.

6.2

Moonraker

June 1979 •English

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.

5.5

I Am the Doorway

October 2017 •Czech

A sci-fi horror film based on the story by Stephen King. A first person POV perspective allows the audience to get inside the head of an astronaut trapped in a spaceship, as a strange virus grows inside him, altering his mind. To save himself he must take drastic action.

7.8

Solaris

March 1972 •Russian

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

5.3

Eolomea

September 1972 •German

Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days. And the orbit station "Margot" has suddenly fallen silent. The space council is faced with a mystery and the scientist in charge, Maria Scholl, sees no other solution than ordering a total flight stop to this mysterious sector of space. Her colleague, Prof. Tal seems to be suspicious since he knows things before they are even released. A forbidden look into his personal file brings to light that Tal was part of the Eolomea project that never found approval of the commission in charge.

5.6

The Astronaut's Wife

August 1999 •English

When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?

6.0

Mission to Mars

March 2000 •English

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

6.6

2010

December 1984 •English

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

0.0

Barbarella

Invalid date •English

A remake of the 1968 classic, based on the comic books by Jean-Claude Forest. Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.

6.2

The Astronaut Farmer

February 2007 •English

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.

0.0

Blackout

March 2021 •English

While on a routine mission, an astronaut soon finds herself battling for command, facing forces known -- and unknown -- intent on destroying her.

6.3

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

June 1964 •English

Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food and companionship on the lifeless planet.

4.2

Solar Crisis

August 1992 •English

A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence and a Japanese pilot at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.

5.9

Solaris

November 2002 •English

A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

5.7

Babe: Pig in the City

November 1998 •English

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.

5.2

Species II

April 1998 •English

Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.

6.2

Deep Impact

May 1998 •English

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.