October Sky
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title:
October Sky
text:
October Sky is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern. The screenplay by Lewis Colick, based on the memoir of the same name, tells the true story of Homer H. Hickam Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually became a NASA engineer. October Sky is based on the lives of four young men who grew up in Coalwoo
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wiki
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1999 film by Joe Johnston
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Sky
date created:
2004-10-28T01:41:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T05:23:44Z
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