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First Man

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Directed by Damien Chazelle
Produced by Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Damien Chazelle, and Isaac Klausner
Screenplay by Josh Singer Based on the book by James R. Hansen
With: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Patrick Fugit, Christopher Abbott, Ciarán Hinds, Olivia Hamilton, Pablo Schreiber, Shea Whigham, Lukas Haas, Ethan Embry, Brian d'Arcy James, Cory Michael Smith, and Kris Swanberg
Cinematography: Linus Sandgren
Editing: Tom Cross
Music: Justin Hurwitz
Runtime: 141 min
Release Date: 12 October 2018
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color
Twitter Capsule:
The residual brilliance of Philip Kaufman's wild-eyed, multilayered '83 epic The Right Stuff casts a long shadow over Singer and Chazelle's respectful, straightforward, but ultimately underwhelming big-screen telling of Neil Armstrong's journey from Earth to the moon.