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Synopsis: In a 1950's mining town called Coalwood, Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However in October 1957, everything changes when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik goes into orbit. With that event, Homer becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets. With his friends and the local nerd, Homer sets to do just that by trial and a lot of error. Unfortunately, most of the town and especially Homer's father thinks that they are wasting their time. Only one teacher in the high school understands their efforts and lets them know that they could become contenders in the national science fair with college scholarships being the prize. Now the gang must learn to perfect their craft and overcome the many problems facing them as they shoot for the stars.
Director(s): Joe Johnston
Production: Universal
  4 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
PG
Year:
1999
108 min
Website
5,250 Views


mining town in West Virginia.

Ignition.

Liftoff. Liftoff.

I'm writing to offer

my condolences to you

and your team...

on your recent attempt

to launch the Vanguard rocket.

I also had a disastrous

occurrence during the launch

of my own small rocket.

Since here in Coalwood,

everyone's much more

interested...

in what's down below the earth

than what's above it,

there isn't a whole lot

of material to be found

on the subject of rocketry.

So I've been kind of stumbling

around in the dark.

[music]Don't you give me

no dirty look [music]

[music] Your father's hip

He knows what cooks [music]

[music]Just tell your hoodlum

friend outside [music]

[music] You ain't got time

to take a ride [music]

[music] Yakety yak

Don't talk back [music]

[music] Yakety yak, yakety yak [music]

You can't be seen

with him, Homer.

[Roy Lee]

He's a weirdo.

You go ahead,

but you can kiss

your social life good-bye.

Hi, Homer.

Hi.

I don't let anybody

copy my homework.

I don't wanna copy

your homework.

Um,

do you know anything

about rockets?

Of course I do.

Uh, you wanna come with me

over to the library?

No.

[Students Murmuring]

What do you wanna know

about rockets?

Everything.

Well, rocketry was actually

invented by the Chinese

as early as 1,000 A.D.

And, supposedly,

they were quite sophisticated.

[Chattering Continues]

Potassium chlorate and sulphur.

Uh, well,

what'd you use?

Uh, somethin' like that.

[Homer]

Hey, Quentin, this is great.

This is exactly... We have

everything we need in here.

Roy Lee,

drive me to my house.

We can use my basement.

Yeah, at least nobody'll

see us down there.

Go, go, go.

[Engine Turning Over]

Come on.

[Quentin]

You got a loose choke cable.

You hear that?

The butterfly valve

isn't closin' all the way.

Uh, last year I built

an internal combustion engine...

and entered it

in the science fair.

Yeah, well, you wouldn't happen

to have it on you, would you?

[music] Gonna find her [music]

[music] Gonna find her [music]

[music] Gonna find her [music]

[music] Gonna find her [music]

[music] Yeah [music]

[music]I've been searchin'[music]

[music] Uh, I'm searchin'[music]

[music] Oh, yeah, searchin'[music]

[music]Every which way [music]

Ow!

[music] Oh, yeah [music]

I'm sorry.

[music]Searchin'[music]

[music]I'm searchin'[music]

You missed a spot.

[music]Searchin'every which way [music]

[music]But I'm like that... [music]

This thing's startin'

to look like a rocket.

Listen to this.

"Weld the washer

to the base of the rocket body,

creating a combustion chamber

and nozzle."

We don't know how to weld.

Weld.

Homer,

your brother's in metal shop.

Maybe he could, uh...

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Lewis Colick

Lewis Colick is an American screenwriter born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Baruch College in New York and got his MFA in Theatre Arts from the UCLA Film School. more…

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