The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
1959: Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space, suffering Hypoxia, with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some unorthodox communication with Tyuratam deep in Soviet Russia. Can he get home? Who will help him? Will he make the right choice?
Ratings
IMDb5.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes71%
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
86 audience votes
Key crew
- Andrew MartinDirector
- Andrew MartinWriter
- Hugo de ChaireOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Edmund KingsleyGuy Taylor
- Lisa GreenwoodCharlotte Taylor
- David WaymanHarry Lyndhurst
- Nigel BarberAgent Mike Spann
- Gil KolirinGraham Bennett
- Michael KoltesBob Elijah
- Ged PetkunasViktor Korolev
- Edgar RovePavel Patsaev
- Dimitar StoyanovValentin Desyatkov
- Josephine FellowsAnna Tsiolkovsky
- Polina PospyelovaNina Tikhomirova
- Kathryn MincerPrivate Makharov