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Movie

Age Group:

Adult

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Date: 01/23/2025 

Title: October Sky 

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott 

Studio: Universal Pictures 

Director: Joe Johnston 

Rating: PG 

Runtime: 108 Minutes 

Year: 1999 

Description: Before becoming a NASA engineer, Homer Hickam was a curious high-school student from West Virginia. When the Soviet Russia launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, Homer and his friends began designing their own rockets with dreams of escaping their coal-mining town.