October Sky

October Sky is the story of West Virginian high school student Homer Hickham  who was inspired by the 1957 launch of Sputnik to build and launch his own rocket. Johnston's film follows Homer every step of the way, from building the missile as part of a science project, through the first attempts to launch it, to the tentative first flight in front of the locals. Fighting Homer all the way is his father, a fiercely proud supervisor at the local coal mine who expects his son to follow in his footsteps, and cannot understand for one minute the boy's fascination with something so fantastical as space travel. But Homer refuses to give up, often clashing with his father and practically tearing his family apart in the pursuit of his dream. By Dylan And Bryanne