The Right Stuff Drinking Game Rules
This The Right Stuff drinking game turns a long, classic space drama into a lively movie night. You follow Chuck Yeager, the Mercury Seven, and the rough early days of NASA through test flights, failed launches, and sudden fame. Philip Kaufman's film mixes danger, humor, and old-school pilot swagger, so the game always has something to build on.
Use this The Right Stuff movie drinking game when you want clear rules that match the movie's best beats. The cues track the action from Edwards Air Force Base to Project Mercury and keep the pace strong across the full 193 minute runtime.
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The Right Stuff Drinking Game Rules:
- Take a sip Pancho Barnes, or anyone at Edwards, calls a pilot "prime" or "pudknocker"
- Drink the movie cuts to the Happy Bottom Riding Club
- Drink a plane, rocket, or test vehicle explodes, crashes, or breaks apart
- Take a sip reporters, TV crews, or photographers swarm the Mercury astronauts
- Drink an astronaut's wife has to smile for cameras or guests while clearly under strain
- Take a sip NASA puts the astronaut candidates through another invasive or bizarre medical test
- Drink the astronauts push back against being treated like passengers instead of pilots
- Take a sip a launch countdown or mission control call starts building tension
- Drink the Soviets score a major space race win, including Sputnik or Yuri Gagarin's flight
- Finish your drink Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier and beats the "demon in the sky"
- Drink Yeager and Scott Crossfield trade the edge in their speed record rivalry
- Take a sip John Glenn is packaged as the clean-cut American hero for television or public events
- Finish your drink Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 hatch blows and the capsule starts sinking
- Drink a launch is scrubbed, delayed, or reset after everyone seems ready to go
- Finish your drink Alan Shepard finally lifts off on the first American crewed spaceflight
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About the Movie
- Title
- The Right Stuff
- Released
- 17 Feb 1984
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 193 min
- Genre
- Adventure
- Plot
- Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once.
- Language
- English, Russian, Spanish
