Title: Capricorn One
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Languages: English
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama,
Runtime: 0:00:00 Hour
Cast: Elliott Gould, James Brolin
Directors: Peter Hyams
MPA Rating: PG
Rating: 6.8 (534 Votes)
TomatoMeter: 65 %
Audiance Score: 58 %
Critics Consensus: A string of questionable plot contrivances threaten to bury its story, but Capricorn One manages to unfurl an amusing, sharply cynical conspiracy yarn.
Year: 1978
Summary: In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.