Review of October Sky

October Sky
Written By David Russell
This is a story about a Coal miner and family trying to compete with his rocket scientest son wannabe. His father has no patiencets with him. He sets off rockets in the back yard and blows up fences. He moves his rocket launch pad out into the wilderness and gets arrested for setting a forest fire. Laura Dern the school teacher prods the boy into setting out to win the school scholarship at the science fare, He meets with all kinds of set backs , a sick father who wants him to work in the mine and he doesnt want to work in the mine. This is a very exiciting movie, The music is good, The sets are fantastic and this is the best two hour film i have seen this year . This is very reminiscent of the movie Stand by me. This should do very well with the teenage set. It is a wonderfull film all the way around.


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