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October Sky
Living in such a community of coal city, where all guys work in the mines, makes Homer Hickam, a young teenager but intelligent guy, who enjoys with his great intelligence and big talent in creating rockets, the thing that brings terrible for him with his father, who wants him to follow his footsteps, but with the great success he achieves, his father begins to appreciate his thoughts.
9 March 1962, Russellville, Arkansas, USA
8 April 1952, San Antonio, Texas, USA
10 February 1967, Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA
April 22, 1977 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
August 29, 2015
...compulsively watchable...
December 26, 2010
Inspiring tale for older tweens and up.
January 01, 2000
This movie has deep values.
April 09, 2005
Director Joe Johnston has crafted a feel good film that doesn't pander to cheap emotions.
January 01, 2000
A must-see for every student, parent and teacher in the country!
January 01, 2000
It is a film that treats its teen-aged hero and his pals as distinctive, sentient human beings.
January 01, 2000
A professionally crafted family film that reserves all its challenging moments for its characters, letting the audience bask comfortably in the approach of a predetermined warm and fuzzy ending.
January 01, 2000
Believable, subtle, and consistently intelligent!
February 24, 2011
uplifting family film with great values
January 29, 2005
October Sky is a movie you want to believe in.
January 26, 2006
The TV movie subject matter is infused with genuine feeling for the value of learning as a passport to freedom, and an authentic regard for the honest graft of working men.
April 07, 2006
...plays like a TV movie made for everyone who subscribes to Reader's Digest. Still, its manipulations are sincere rather than cynical...
