Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Excellent movie, it is very emotional and inspirational. Especially since it's a true story. It clasps onto your heart for the entire time, until you just can't take it. Gives me immense motivation, to thrive for challenges. I've watched it twice and yet the movie doesn't get old! It definitely is a underrated movie!

This movie is very inspiring. It is a great movie based on a true story and is family friendly for all ages. It promotes hard work and knowledge. I enjoyed this movie and it is a great movie for any aspiring engineers showing what people are capable of if they put their minds to it.

October Sky clearly shows how you can take a film based off a true story and make it inspirational to others.It's rare to have a film like that and lucky the film does well to help bring this inspirational story. The film just goes many the hope they need to never give up on what you believe in even if no one else does. Believing in yourself changing everything. Plus with great performances by Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper and Laura Dern who each brought their game to the film considering the important to the fact the film is based off a true story.The music is very well done along with old classic songs that are played in the film. October Sky shouldn't be miss by anyone who enjoy a great story and strong acting it is a must watchI give October Sky an 8 out of 10

The true story of Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal), a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.Besides Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern is top billed. Maybe that is fair, given how well she is known. But now (2015), it seems worth noting that Chris Cooper is just as big a part of this film and has really gone on to become a name of his own. Maybe not eclipsing Dern, but not far behind. Updated releases ought to reflect this.The film is strangely obsessed with the idea that people cannot get out of their small town or escape the coal mine. Was this true in the 1950s? Being from a small town that lived or died based on its paper mill, I understand the concept... but never thought of it as so stark or inevitable.