402- OCTOBER SKY

Summary: (10...9...8...) Hold onto your socks, this week we launch into OCTOBER SKY, the 1999 drama directed by Joe Johnston starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Laura Dern! (7...6...) Based on the true story Homer Hickam, a boy from a poor coal-mining town who used his love of rocketry to escape his destiny in the mines and eventually work for NASA! (5...4...3...) Also starring Chris Cooper and Chris Owen, (2...1...)this movie inspired us when we were younger, but how does it still BLAST OFF today?