Space Cowboys

Fhich four over-the-hill flyboys get the chance they missed 40 years earlier to go into space in this amiable shaggy dog story, which loses momentum after takeoff. Back in 1958, Air Force pilots Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), "Hawk" Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Tank Sullivan (James Garner) and Jerry O'Neil (Donald Sutherland) were Team Daedalus, the best of the best. They looked like shoe-ins for the space program's first astronauts, but were elbowed out by Bob Gerson (James Cromwell), a conniving bureaucrat whose only priority was advancing his own career. Forty years later, Tank is a minister, Hawk gives prop-plane joyrides, Jerry designs roller coasters and Frank is...