Cielo d'ottobre

Titolo originale: October Sky
Regia: Joe Johnston |
Anno: 1999
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Famiglia
Tag: small town | based on novel or book | parent child relationship | satellite | biography | rocket | west virginia | mining accident | teacher | coal mine | 1950s | sputnik | rocketry |
Cast: Laura Dern | Jake Gyllenhaal | Chris Owen | Chris Cooper | William Lee Scott | Chad Lindberg | Natalie Canerday | Ilya Baskin | Chris Ellis | Scott Thomas | Randy Stripling | Courtney Cole-Fendley | David Dwyer | Terry Loughlin | Kaili Hollister | David Copeland | Don Henderson Baker | Tom Kagy | Donald Thorne | Justin Whitsett | Larry Rue | Neva Howell | Terry Nienhuis | Brady Coleman | Rick Forrester | Terrence Gibney | Doug Swander | Keeli Hale Kimbro | Mark Jeffrey Miller | Blaque Fowler | Don Tilley | Rockford Davis | John Bennes | Jonathan Fawbush | Larry Black | Frank Schuler | Tommy Smeltzer | Charles Lawlor | Tom Turbiville | Ida Ginn | Richard Lumpkin | Mark W. Johnson | Don Taylor | Don G. Campbell | Liz Byler | Bradford Ryan Lund | Frank Hoyt Taylor | Dave Hager | Ray Elder | Andy Stahl | Joe Digaetano | Thomas Taylor | David Ducey | Jenny Patterson | O. Winston Link |

Ottobre 1957, Coalwood, cittadina mineraria del West Virginia. Il cielo notturno è solcato dalla scia luminosa dello Sputnik, il primo satellite, lanciato dai Sovietici, in orbita attorno alla Terra. Per il diciassettenne Homer H. Hickam jr. è come una folgorazione: costruire razzi costituirà il passaporto per sfuggire al destino che lo vuole minatore, come tutti a Coalwood. Il ragazzo non si lascerà bloccare né dall'iniziale ostilità del padre, autoritario sovrintendente della miniera, né dai primi insuccessi; con l'aiuto di 3 coetanei e col sostegno della sua professoressa di Chimica e Fisica, parteciperà al concorso scientifico indetto per tutte le scuole della nazione; e vincerà il primo premio anche grazie al padre, che gli procurò i pezzi che gli erano stati rubati durante il concorso. Il suo ultimo razzo lo dedicò alla professoressa Riley, morta di morbo di Hodgkin.

Errori

While Roy Lee is shooting at his car, a piece of grass suddenly appears in O'Dell's mouth. D
When Homer's dad introduces the football recruiter, he refers to him as from the University of West [...] D
When Homer is writing equations on the chalkboard, explaining to Mr. Turner that they did not start [...] D
When Homer and Quentin estimate the range of the Auk XIII, it's presumably done with a 50-foot rope, [...] D
In real life, both the father and son were named Homer Hickam, however in the film the father's name [...] D
The boys created a remote ignition device by having a spring-loaded match rub past a match strike st [...] D
When Mr. Turner and the boys get into Mr. Turner's station wagon after they have discovered that an [...] D
In the auditorium scene near the end of the movie, the U.S. flags are hung incorrectly. The blue fie [...] D
When the phonograph record is changed during the dance at the Dugout, the records are 45 rpm, but th [...] D
During the end "where are they now" montage it says that Freida Riley died of Hodgkin's Disease at a [...] D
In their search for the missing rocket, Homer and Quentin use trajectory formulas for a free-falling [...] D
When Roy Lee's stepfather is beating Roy Lee up, after getting released from the jail, and John Hick [...] D
The end of the movie states that Homer's father died of black lung disease in 1976. Homer's father a [...] D
During the last launch sequence where John Hickam launches the "Miss Riley" Homer Hickam activates t [...] D
Homer is watching a black and white TV which has a wide aspect ratio. Wide aspect ratio TV wasn't av [...] D
The lenses of the character's eyeglasses have Anti Reflective Coating (ARC) which wasn't available f [...] D
When Homer writes his letter to Wernher Von Braun, he incorrectly sends his condolences for Von Brau [...] D
Towards the start of the movie, Homer is walking out to his launch site with a box of rocket making [...] D
During the montage of the exploding rocket launches, the last rocket goes up, comes back down, and h [...] D
When Homer and his friends are removing tracks from what they believe are abandoned railroad tracks, [...] D
The miners' union hall has a 50-star flag, but the strike takes place in 1958, a year before Alaska [...] D
Homer approaches Quentin in the library within a few months of the launch of Sputnik (October 1957), [...] D
When the workers are talking about forming a union, one extra is mouthing the lines of the character [...] D
In the shot where Homer first steps off the truck after returning from the Science Fair, a camera is [...] D
The beginning of the movie is dated October 4, 1957. The very next day Homer goes to football tryout [...] D
After Homer and O'Dell have their fight in the woods, Homer heads out toward the road from the boys. [...] D
The boys say they can't weld, yet the fins are welded to the fuselage. D
After getting in a fight with O'Dell, Homer walks alone towards Snakeroot with nothing in his hands. [...] D
The miners' union hall has a 50-star flag, but the strike takes place in 1958 (a year before Alaska [...] D
The shop phone is buzzing, but when Homer's mother throws it out on the ground, brass bells can be s [...] D
When Quentin first looks at Homer's calculations for the lost rocket, the sheet already has the equa [...] D
The steam locomotive seen in the film has a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement and is lettered for the Norfolk [...] D
At the end of the movie when they show the space shuttle launch, the first shot shows a launch stack [...] D