October Sky

Release Date:

Feb 19, 1999

MPAA Rating:

PG

Running Time:

1:48

Genre:

Docudrama

Director:

Joe Johnston

Cast:

Jake Gyllenhaal	Homer Hickam
Chris Cooper	John Hickam
Laura Dern	Miss Frieda Riley
Chris Owen	Quentin Wilson
William Lee Scott	Roy Lee Cook
Chad Lindberg	Sherman O'Dell
Natalie Canerday	Elsie Hickam
Scott Miles	Jim Hickam
Randy Stripling	Leon Bolden
Chris Ellis	Principal Turner
Scott Thomas	Jim Hickam
O. Winston Link	Locomotive Engineer
Courtney Fendley	Dorothy Platt
Frank Schuler	Moonshiner
Kailie Hollister	Valentine Carmina

Producers:

Peter Cramer , Larry J. Franco , Charles Gordon , Marc Sternberg

Writers:

Homer H. Hickam Jr., Lewis Colick

Language:

English

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Sugar

John Hickam is a West Virginia coal miner who loves his job and expects his sons, Jim and Homer, to follow in his footsteps. But Jim gets a football scholarship, and Homer becomes interested in rocket science after seeing Sputnik 1 crossing the sky. John disapproves of his son's new mania, but Homer begins building rockets with the help of friends and a sympathetic teacher . Rocketry, he hopes, will prove his ticket to a better life.

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