Return to Earth (film)

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| image = Return to Earth.jpg

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| caption = DVD cover art

| genre = Biography
Drama

| creator =

| based_on = {{Based on|Return to Earth|Buzz Aldrin with Wayne Warga}}

| writer =

| screenplay =

| story =

| director = Jud Taylor

| starring = {{plainlist|

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| music = Billy Goldenberg

| country = United States

| language = English

| executive_producer = Rupert Hitzig
Alan King

| producer = Jud Taylor

| location =

| cinematography = Frank Stanley

| editor = Ronald J. Fagan

| camera =

| runtime = 74 minutes

| company = King-Hitzig Productions

| budget =

| network = ABC

| released = {{start date|1976|05|14}}

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Return to Earth is an American biopic television film that originally aired on May 14, 1976 on ABC.{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=John |date=May 14, 1976 |title=TV Weekend |newspaper=The New York Times }} The film stars Cliff Robertson as astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Shirley Knight as Joan Aldrin. Based upon Aldrin's 1973 book of the same name,{{cite book |last=Goble |first=Alan |date=1999 |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |page=928 |isbn=9783110951943 }} the film dramatizes the emotional difficulties of Aldrin's life following his 1969 trip to the Moon on Apollo 11. The film was directed by Jud Taylor, and Aldrin served as a consultant.{{cite magazine |last=Davidson |first=Bill |date=April 26, 1976 |title=Fact or Fiction? |magazine=New York }}Buzz Aldrin--in search of another moon?: Not the same Broadway Space-fiction venture Impact on Russia

By Arthur Unger. The Christian Science Monitor 13 May 1976: 22.

Plot

Based upon his own book of his ordeals, the film is the story of Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, and the problems he had after the mission and his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, his struggles with clinical depression and alcoholism, and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems.

==Cast==