Movie
1999
October Sky is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston from a screenplay by Lewis Colick. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern. Based on the book Rocket Boys, it tells the story of Homer H. Hickam Jr., a coal miner's son from Coalwood, West Virginia, who takes up amateur rocketry with his friends. Hickam would later become a NASA engineer.
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Americans in the past century had very different reactions when faced when aerial objects from foreign countries flying over their heads. At least this is an impression you might get after watching *October Sky*, 1999 period drama directed by Joe Johnston. Film is based on the memoirs of former NASA engineer Homer Hickam Jr. The plot begins in October 1957 in author’s home town of Coalwood in West Virginia. Soviet U…More
