Film · Prime Video · 1999
Pass it on
October Sky
76Worth an evening.
Keep it. Work, a teacher, a father, and a son who does not despise the mine he refuses.
The review
Homer Hickam wants the sky in a town that measures a man by the shift. The film is excellent because it does not make the father a villain for loving the mine, or the son a saint for leaving it. Miss Riley sees him. The friends build the thing, fail, and build it again. That is industry with a face. The union, the strike, the black dust are not scenery. They are the life the dream is arguing with, and the argument stays filial.
A boy can watch this and come away wanting to do his homework. There are worse results. Say, at the end, that the teacher who stayed late is as much the hero as the rocket.
Journal
Keep October Sky in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 76. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
A Man for All Seasons
89 instead of 76
A Man for All Seasons is still a drama film, and it scores 89 instead of 76. What you gain is piety: Faith is the center, and it is not a mood.
The eight
- 10Industry
The rockets are practice, scrap, and more practice.
- 8Household
A hard father, a loyal mother, a son who comes back.
- 4Piety
No sermon. A real awe at the work.
- 8Courage
He keeps launching after the town laughs.
- 7Republic
A company town, a union, a public that has opinions.
- 7Temperance
Ambition governed by craft.
- 8Truth
The mine is not slandered to make the dream pretty.
- 9Stewardship
It hands a young person the habit of trying the thing again.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · October Sky · 76IMDb
