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starstarstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstar John Anderson - Newsday
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar David Armstrong - SF Examiner
starstarstar Barry Johnson - Portland Oregonian
starstarstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
starstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal

“Moviegoers with long memories will see in October Sky the same youthful impetus and fidelity to regional rhythms and values that has made a classic of Peter Yates’ 1979 film Breaking Away”

- Susan Stark

“Its heart is in the right place, but its head is in the clouds”

- Mark Burger

October Sky
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Based on Homer Hickam’s memoir "Rocket Boys," it is the story of a teen from a coal-mining town who builds rockets hoping to get a college scholarship. Laura Dern, Chris Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott, Roy Lee, Chad Lindberg. Director: Joe Johnston (1999, PG)
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