October Sky
Driving by his great talent in creating flying rockets by using the available materials of our daily life and intelligent, Homer Hickam, a young teenager guy who lives in a coal city and struggles against his life as mines, the thing that puts him in dilemma with his father, but when his invention meets with success and acceptance by people, he begins to be proud of him.
14 April 1956, Dallas, Texas, USA
11 August 1950, Riga, USSR [now Latvia]
6 April 1976, Bristol, Tennessee, USA
23 September 1956, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
26 June 1969, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
27 January 1947
16 December 1914, Brooklyn, New York, USA
26 March 1929
25 September 1980, Michigan, USA
9 March 1962, Russellville, Arkansas, USA
6 July 1973, Hudson, New York, USA
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...
April 09, 2005
Director Joe Johnston has crafted a feel good film that doesn't pander to cheap emotions.
January 29, 2005
October Sky is a movie you want to believe in.
February 24, 2011
uplifting family film with great values
January 01, 2000
Believable, subtle, and consistently intelligent!
August 29, 2015
...compulsively watchable...
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.
December 26, 2010
Inspiring tale for older tweens and up.
January 01, 2000
This movie has deep values.
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 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.
