October Sky (Spec Slip) [VHS] Overview
Based on the memoir Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam Jr., October Sky emerged as one of the most delightful sleepers of 1999--a small miracle of good ol' fashioned movie-making in the cynical, often numbingly trendy Hollywood of the late 20th century. Hickam's true story begins in 1957 with Russia's historic launch of the Sputnik satellite, and while Homer (played with smart idealism by Jake Gyllenhaal) sees Sputnik as his cue to pursue a fascination with rocketry, his father (Chris Cooper) epitomizes the admirable yet sternly stubborn working-man's ethic of the West Virginia coal miner, casting fear and disdain on Homer's pursuit of science while urging his "errant" son to carry on the family business--a spirit-killing profession that Homer has no intention of joining.
As directed by Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer), this wonderful movie is occasionally guilty of overstating its case and sacrificing subtlety for predictable melodrama. But more often the film's tone is just right, and the spirit of adventure and invention is infectiously conveyed through Gyllenhaal and his well-cast fellow rocketeers, whose many failures gradually lead to triumph on their makeshift backwoods launching pad. Capturing time and place with impeccable detail and superbly developed characters (including Laura Dern as an inspiring schoolteacher), October Sky is a family film for the ages, encouraging the highest potential of the human spirit while giving viewers a clear view of a bygone era when "the final frontier" beckoned to the explorer in all of us. --Jeff Shannon
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This is based on a real life, but in many dramatic elements to the delight of the audience. Speaks of a boy and his dream of a rocket in an ordinary part of building America. The boys seem normal children, the United States, because they call me even more, this film is. This is not like a soap opera. The charm of this film lies in its simplicity. A sweetness and innocence is written all over him. It is linked to the memory of your high school life. Littleinsignificant moments that we see in the film is never shown in regular movie, she felt as if we are our age. In some beautiful passages, the film almost Replays path of people with science and technology in which a failure was a constant threat, people continued to conquer the unknown.
Only one thing I could do even better was the end drives the scope smaller. What did he learn from our study? Only the tools for a job? Certainly not. Studies orEducation teaches us all the challenges we face in life to resolve, to answer all the questions that life asks us always to be found. Can our parents and the elderly have found the answers in front of us, but we find it again for us. We can not always be parents looking for answers. In this sense, even if leaving the college, our student life is not over. Life itself is like a test, in which all problems are known and the invisible world there is no single book as "Principles of Guided MissileDesign ", which you can contact us for answers. And 'we too must do our research to find a correct answer. This is the best fruit of education, how to win the mission of the boys at the National Science Fair. The effort will not help simple girl who win the fair, but the confidence and character to do all the challenges in life - even for the lives of students. This is the best blessing of the education system. The script could have touched a bit '.
But overall very sweetTo enjoy a game. A must for all to see - although I'm not a math wizard.
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