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October Sky is a 1999 movie based on the book Rocket Boys, an autobiographical book by Homer Hickam. The book is based on Hickam's real childhood; however screenwriter Lewis Colick took some creative license in his adaptation of the story for film. Joseph Eggleston Joe Johnston III (born May 13, 1950 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a well-known American film director responsbile for such films as Hidalgo, Jurassic Park III, October Sky, and Jumanji, amongst others. ...
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. ...
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal[1] (born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. ...
Christopher W. Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ...
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. ...
Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ...
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Rocket Boys is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. ...
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. ...
Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ...
The story deals with four teenage boys struggling to find their place in the world in the late 1950s amidst the overwhelming presence of the coal mine in their town of Coalwood, West Virginia. Inspired by the launch of the first space satellite, Sputnik, they begin to experiment with building small rockets. They eventually enter their rockets in a science competition in an effort to experience life beyond their small town. The boys' relationships with family and community play a major role in the story, especially Homer's longing for approval from his father. Wyoming coal mine Coal mining is the mining of coal. ...
Coalwood is a coal-mining town in West Virginia. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Area Ranked 41st - Total 24,244 sq mi (62,809 km²) - Width 130 miles (210 km) - Length 240 miles (385 km) - % water 0. ...
Sputnik 1 The Sputnik program was a series of unmanned space missions launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s to demonstrate the viability of artificial satellites. ...
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The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott, Chad Lindberg, and Natalie Canerday. Noted photographer O. Winston Link has a cameo as a railroad engineer. The film is complemented with a musical score by Mark Isham. Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal[1] (born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. ...
Christopher W. Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ...
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. ...
Chris Owen (born September 25, 1980) is an actor best known for his role in the American Pie movies, as the inimitable Chuck Sherman (aka The Sherminator). ...
William Lee Scott (Born July 6, 1973) is an American actor born in Hudson, New York. ...
Chad Tyler Lindberg (born November 1, 1976) is an American actor. ...
Natalie Canerday is a native of Russellville, Arkansas. ...
Ogle Winston Link[1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer. ...
A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television. ...
Mark Isham (born September 7, 1951 in New York City) is an American trumpeter, synthesist, and composer. ...
This movie is rated PG for language, brief teen sensuality and alcohol use, and for some thematic elements.
Plot The film is set in the late 1950s in the small mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. Homer (Jake Gyllenhaal) fears he is destined to end up working in the local coal mine like nearly all men in town. After the launch of the first space satellite, Sputnik, Homer's teacher Miss Riley encourages him to follow his dreams of building rockets. After initial setbacks mixed with some success, Miss Riley further inspires Homer and his companions to enter the School Science Fair in hopes of winning the National Science Fair and college scholarships. Homer's father, John, is less than supportive of this idea and instead wants Homer to follow in his footsteps as manager of the mine. Coalwood is a coal-mining town in West Virginia. ...
Sputnik 1 The Sputnik program was a series of unmanned space missions launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s to demonstrate the viability of artificial satellites. ...
After much frustrated effort and local opposition, Homer and his friends eventually succeed in winning the national science fair in Indianapolis as Homer's father saves the day. The movie concludes with Ms. Riley sick in the hospital(who dies later) and with Homer's father attending the group's final rocket launch, an apparent and long-awaited endorsement of his son's efforts. The Indianapolis skyline Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana. ...
Title "October Sky" is an anagram of "Rocket Boys", the title of the book on which the movie is based. Homer Hickam stated that in research done by Universal Pictures, women over 30 would not go to see a movie titled "Rocket Boys",[citation needed] so Universal Pictures changed the title to be more inviting to a wider audience. The book was later re-released with the name October Sky in order to capitalize on interest in the movie. For the game, see Anagrams. ...
Filming Set in the state of West Virginia, the film was actually shot at Petros, Oliver Springs, Oak Ridge, Harriman, and Knoxville, Tennessee. The coal mine used in the film was an actual coal mine located in Petros which had long since closed. The steam locomotive (Southern Railway 4501) used in the film was a loan from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. For other uses, see State (disambiguation). ...
Official language(s) English Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Area Ranked 41st - Total 24,244 sq mi (62,809 km²) - Width 130 miles (210 km) - Length 240 miles (385 km) - % water 0. ...
Petros, Tennessee is a town located in Morgan County, Tennessee on Tennessee Highway 116. ...
Oliver Springs is a town located in Tennessee. ...
Oak Ridge is an incorporated city in Anderson and Roane Counties in East Tennessee, about 25 miles northwest of Knoxville. ...
Harriman is a city located in Roane County, Tennessee. ...
Nickname: Location within the U.S. State of Tennessee. ...
Wyoming coal mine Coal mining is the mining of coal. ...
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The Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark SOU) was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894. ...
The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum ( initialised TVRM) was founded in 1961 by a group of railfans that did not want to see the steam locomotives go to scrap. ...
Cast - Note: Although the real-life Homer is Homer Hickam, Jr., his father was renamed "John" in the movie, probably to make the dialogue smoother and less confusing to audiences.
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal[1] (born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. ...
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. ...
Christopher W. Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ...
Laura Elizabeth Dern (born February 10, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. ...
Freida J. Riley (1937 – August 5, 1969) was an American science and math teacher who taught at Big Creek High School in War & Coalwood West Virginia while suffering from Hodgkins Disease. ...
Chris Owen (born September 25, 1980) is an actor best known for his role in the American Pie movies, as the inimitable Chuck Sherman (aka The Sherminator). ...
William Lee Scott (Born July 6, 1973) is an American actor born in Hudson, New York. ...
Roy Lee Cooke (born December 25, 1941) is an American who was a founding member of the Big Creek Missile Agency and, therefore, one of the original Rocket Boys. ...
Chad Tyler Lindberg (born November 1, 1976) is an American actor. ...
Natalie Canerday is a native of Russellville, Arkansas. ...
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Elya Baskin (born 24 January 1951, Riga, Latvia) attended Moscows prestigious Theatre and Variety Arts College. ...
David D Dwyer is just an ordinary school pupil from North London with an extremely large head. ...
Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr. ...
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