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CS Weekly Archive> DVD > 10/17/08
A Sky Full of Lies
by jason Davis
Capricorn One (Special Edition)
Peter Hyams (also directed)
 
 
Astronauts Charles Brubaker (James Brolin), John Walker (O.J. Simpson), and Peter Willis (Sam Waterston) were destined to crew the first manned mission to Mars until substandard life-support equipment forced NASA official James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook) to fake the expedition with an unmanned launch and TV transmissions recorded in a secret warehouse. Tying real-world ennui with the Space Race to conspiracy theories about the moon landings, Peter Hyams' script for Capricorn One provides a plausible scenario whereby a government agency like NASA, with so much riding on each endeavor, might perpetrate a hoax to keep the dream behind it alive. When Kelloway's plot spirals out of control and investigative journalist Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould) starts picking at the loose ends, the story rapidly evolves into race between revealing the truth and preserving the lie. Hyams provides a dry, but sometimes interesting commentary, but the gem of the supplements is a documentary exploring the premise behind the paranoid picture.
Capricorn One (Special Edition)
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Rated PG; 123 min.
$19.98
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Jason Davis has been the DVD Manager for CS Weekly, a contributing editor for Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and has written for Cinescape.com, MSN.com, and created the TV series Studio 13, which ran on Lorne Michaels' Burly TV network. He lives in the small space left over by his ever-expanding library of books, movies, and music.
Capricorn One (Special Edition)
courtesy Lionsgate Home Entertainment
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