October Sky

IMDb: 7.8

Kinopoisk: 8

Country: USA

Year: 1999

Genre: Biography, Drama, Family

Age: 6 +

Cast:Charles Gordon, Chris Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Johnston, Larry Franco, Laura Dern, Peter Cramer

About “October Sky”:

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.