More than 40 years after the release of the first Superman movie, many would argue that there still hasn’t been a Man of Steel to equal Christopher Reeve. Directed by Richard Donner, it was also the first major big-budget superhero movie, and paved the way for all the larger-than-life heroes we now have onscreen. Besides Reeve’s career-making turn, the movie also features a stacked cast, with Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, and Margot Kidder. We revisit the 1978 classic to see whether it still makes our hearts soar.

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