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October Sky is a 1999 drama history family film, directed by Joe Johnston, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper and Chris Owen.
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60 of 120 · most liked firstDecided to watch a movie I remembered fondly as a kid: October Sky(1999). While not perfect mainly due to mild/general misogyny from films of the time period, and a at times a pretty cliche "based on a true story" biopic, the great performances & message of the film ended up winning me over 8/10.
positive · AI labelView post →Not really a space movie, but October Sky is one of my favorite movies ever. It captures the “small town big dreams” aspect perfectly. The mid-50s soundtrack is solid, the score Mark Isham provides is beautiful (especially when Homer is staring up at the night sky watching Sputnik passing over), and
positive · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge #FilmSky Day 21. A mine in a movie. October Sky (1999)
neutral · AI labelView post →#MayMovieChallenge #FilmSky 10: Train run on coal in a movie October Sky - 1999
neutral · AI labelView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? October Sky (1999) and Gattaca (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →I see October Sky has been just added to Netflix, now that was a bloody good film, saw it when it came out, that's my Sunday night comrades xxx
positive · AI labelView post →I actually really like October Sky it’s a really good movie 😂 #bb28
positive · AI labelView post →Believe me when I tell you I was ecstatic when Chris Cooper won an Oscar for Adaptation! A true chameleon. I first took notice of him in October Sky. At the end of the movie, he says so much without saying a word. That always stuck with me. #Matewan #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →If you remember the movie October Sky you will understand what it means if the company owns the town. When things go bad they close it up. This is all very scary.
neutral · AI labelView post →Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film. The Hunt for Red October Sky
neutral · AI labelView post →Post a tree you photographed! Wallace Polsom, “October Sky I” and “October Sky II” (09 October 2016), instant photos taken with Impossible Project SX-70 colour film and a vintage SX-70 Land Camera with the lighten/darken control set a half-step darker. wallacepolsom.com/post/1516143...
neutral · AI labelView post →#JanuaryMovieChallenge Day 7: Coal mine in a movie October Sky - 1999
neutral · AI labelView post →Workday Podcast Entertainment: @hailingfreqopen.bsky.social After Dark: Slut Trek Away Team Report 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭: October Sky @projectionbooth.bsky.social The Exterminating Angel @podcastersassemble.bsky.social A Goofy Movie (Disassembled) @trekranks.com Top 5 Eps that Begin with "The" Thanks 🙂
neutral · AI labelView post →October Sky is definitely a space movie!
positive · AI labelView post →We’re watching October Sky as the first of our Trinity film club movies and it’s crazy how many of the actors would go on to play in some Spider-Man movie…
neutral · AI labelView post →#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025 November 30 - played by Laura Dern Miss Riley - October Sky #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →dark souls raiding the movie October Sky to piss on that nerds letter from wernher von braun and kick his stupid rocket over
neutral · AI labelView post →I also love how every piece of culture (popular or academic) about coal mining is about how terrible of a job it was for the people who did it. It's one of the central conflicts of October Sky. But that makes sense that such an antiscience admin would want to do the opposite of that movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Toy Story 3 Remember the Titans October Sky Enchanted Unbreakable Beetlejuice The LEGO Movie How to Train Your Dragon Casablanca James and the Giant Peach Kubo of the Two Strings Jurassic Park Vertical Limit Mystery Men
neutral · AI labelView post →... directed October Sky, The Rocketeer, Jumanji, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and Captain America The First Avenger (among many others). If you love flashy art deco characters and fantastic film adventures, he might personally be why.
neutral · AI labelView post →Remembering two powerful pieces of rocketry media this week. An early episode of TLC's "Extreme Machines" program from 1997 and the beautiful 1999 film October Sky. Space is the place. I'll always believe that. Some day it will be open to all of us.
positive · AI labelView post →For anyone who hasn't seen it, seek out "October Sky". It is my go to choice whenever anyone asks for an example of a great film that few have seen.
positive · AI labelView post →Downtown Knoxville stood in for Indianapolis in the film “October Sky.” They dimmed some bulbs on the marquee so that the main character would go to the “Ennesse” Theatre.
neutral · AI labelView post →I recently finished Rocket Boys. I was lent this book by a great friend. Have you read this or watched the movie October Sky which is based on this book? If you have read or watched it, let me know what you think. #histbookchat youtu.be/Qw9iZoYyiug?...
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★½ review of October Sky on @letterboxd: boxd.it/2FqNbz
positive · AI labelView post →October Sky-Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Homer Hickam. It is such a sweet movie and has a wonderful cast
positive · AI labelView post →The movie October Sky ("see children, you don't have to work in the mines! You can be scientists! You can leave this place!" every year sometimes multiple times a year) and 9/11
neutral · AI labelView post →My copy of the book was titled October Sky because it was re-released in companion with the film! But yes, both good.
neutral · AI labelView post →Beautiful 🎶 Side note, I loved the movie October Sky.
positive · AI labelView post →October Sky (1999) Always it was October Sky (1999), every year, every time a teacher put on a movie it was October Sky (1999)
neutral · AI labelView post →A few recommends of titles that are better than you might expect or lesser known but good. Deepwater Horizon (2016) Jarhead (2005) Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) October Sky (1999) Pain & Gain (2013) - The Rocks best movie Silence (2016) - A Scorsese no one talks about Speed Racer (2008) - Insane
neutral · AI labelView post →The only coal mining movie I've ever seen is October Sky, and yeah, this is pretty much it
neutral · AI labelView post →I like October Sky, a movie about how soul destroying it is to live/work in a coal town, and how it grinds you down so much you can't even imagine a happier future for you child, even when it's right there in front of you
positive · AI labelView post →Spell your name with movie titles Jumanji Elizabethtown Needful Things Liar Liar October Sky Charlie's Angels Kung Fu Panda Wyatt Earp One of the Guys One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Daredevil Gone Girl Ever After On Golden Pond Rocky Godzilla Enemy of the State
neutral · AI labelView post →And if you don’t recognize the author, TORPEDO JUNCTION is from the guy who wrote the memoir ROCKET BOYS (also great), which became the film OCTOBER SKY…
neutral · AI labelView post →I cannot tell you how many times we watched the Jake Gyllenhall makes a tiny rocket with his friends movie October Sky across middle school and high school
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow, this movie must be a real cultural touchstone (never heard if it before today). It was actually "October Sky"
neutral · AI labelView post →I hadn't seen October Sky in probably 20 years, so I immediately bookmarked it when I saw it had been added to Peacock. Such a good movie.
positive · AI labelView post →The word coal evokes childhood memories of works by Charles Dickens, Frank McCourt, Anna Sewell, Frances Hodgson Burnett - hell, even the movie October Sky - that use it as a marker of poverty, misery, desperation, and squalor. Imagine explaining this news to Oliver Twist.
neutral · AI labelView post →October Sky is such a great movie!
positive · AI labelView post →October Sky. Kinda mid movie but I liked it more than a lot of the other substitute teacher movies
neutral · AI labelView post →All this Trump talk of reviving coal got me thinking about the 1999 film October Sky, starring a young Jake Gyllenhaal as a coal miner's son who takes up rocketry. This is a really enjoyable movie, based on the memoir of Homer Hickam, a former NASA engineer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Here’s my opportunity to say, October Sky: underrated movie
positive · AI labelView post →Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters. #filmsky #filmchallenge 15/20 October Sky
neutral · AI labelView post →One movie that I don't talk about a lot is October Sky. Jake Gyllenhaal was so good in this, as well as the rest of the cast. It really struck a cord with me due to my personal life and it is one of the few movies to not just choke me up, but also make me cry.
positive · AI labelView post →It's Space Movie Sunday! Since I'm streaming Mars Horizon again, I've been thinking about movies that reflect the history of space travel. I'd love to compile a list of movies aligning to the historic and nearish-future events of the game, from October Sky all the way to The Martian.
neutral · AI labelView post →I used to love the movie October Sky when I was younger, but then I got older and learned who Wernher von Braun was
neutral · AI labelView post →Cool! I love the movie October Sky.
positive · AI labelView post →October Sky (1999) Directed by Joe Johnston https://onesheet.org/movie/october-sky-1999/
neutral · AI labelView post →October Sky is a great movie. Also, if you're still adding to the list I'd recommend Contact. One of my top 3 favorite movies.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 76th Birthday To Joe Johnston Joseph Eggleston "Joe" Johnston II (Born May 13, 1950) Is An American Film Director And Former Effects Artist Best Known For Such Hit Movies As Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Jumanji, The Rocketeer, Jurassic Park III, Hidalgo, The Wolfman, October Sky, And The Upcoming
neutral · AI labelView post →October Sky, because I like it, and don't know the other movie.
positive · AI labelView post →The film, "October Sky," which I think I watched on a TV like this at least three different times, in different classes, over my school years.
neutral · AI labelView post →October Sky, a GOAT classroom movie (it has science! And also Laura dern)
positive · AI labelView post →@denizselman33.bsky.social A quick list for your family movie nights: Willy Wonka Matilda Mrs Doubtfire National Treasure That Thing You Do! Uncle Buck October Sky City Slickers The Little Rascals The Mighty Ducks
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn't know this: "In 1998, as aerospace engineer Homer Hickam’s memoir Rocket Boys was being adapted for the screen, Universal Studios’ research warned that women over 30 would not see a movie with that title. So the name was changed to October Sky — the same 10 letters in a different order."
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie that takes place where you’re from: October Sky (1999) We’re not all inbred hillbillies in WV
neutral · AI labelView post →October Sky (Joe Johnston, 1999; Universal) - 8/10 Great movie of the Homer Hickam story of how he was inspired to take up rocketry
positive · AI labelView post →October Sky is definitely the second-best movie about coal mining starring Chris Cooper.
positive · AI labelView post →AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! @chadlindberg.bsky.social my best friend just put on October Sky not realizing how much I love this movie!!!!!!!!! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 ✨ 🌟 🔭 🚀
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