October Sky

In 1957, a young man in a small coal mining town builds rockets with his friends and teacher, faces challenges and setbacks, proves their innocence, wins a science fair, participates in the National Science Fair, helps end a miners strike, becomes a hero, and reconciles with his father. October Sky is a 1999 American English-language Biography Drama movie featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, Laura Dern, William Lee Scott, Chad Lindberg and Sridhar K.s. The movie is inspired from October Sky by Homer Hickam. October Sky was Produced by Charles Gordon and Larry J. Franco. The movie is directed by Joe Johnston. Universal Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. October Sky was released on 19th February 1999 and takes a screen time of 107 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. October Sky was made on a budget of $25 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $34 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Lewis Colick. Cinematography was done by Fred Murphy and editing by Robert Dalva. The music was composed by Mark Isham.