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October Sky (1999)
Directed by Joe Johnston
“Sometimes one dream is enough to light up the whole sky.”
Drama, History, Family · 1h 47m
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal
Homer Hickam
Chris Cooper
John Hickam
Chris Owen
Quentin Wilson
Laura Dern
Miss Riley
William Lee Scott
Roy Lee
Chad Lindberg
O'Dell
Natalie Canerday
Elsie Hickam
Elya Baskin
Ike Bykovsky
Chris Ellis
Principal Turner
Scott Thomas
Jim Hickam
R
Randy Stripling
Leon Bolden
C
Courtney Cole-Fendley
Dorothy Platt
Crew
- Director
- Joe Johnston
- Screenplay
- Lewis Colick
- Director of Photography
- Fred Murphy
- Original Music Composer
- Mark Isham
- Editor
- Robert Dalva
- Producer
- Larry Franco, Charles Gordon
Details
- Release date
- 1999-02-19
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Drama, History, Family
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures
- Budget
- $25,000,000
- Box office
- $34,698,685