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.

Frasi

Homer: [after Homer sees the tiny shack that Quent [...] D
Homer: You know, it, uh, won't fly unless somebody [...] D
Jake Mosby: Buck up, Homer. You're a Coalwood boy! [...] D
Quentin: [shooting off their last rocket] Look at [...] D
Homer: Did you ever see Frankenstein Meets the Wol [...] D
Principal Turner: Miss Riley, our job is to give t [...] D
John: Vernon! [slams Vernon against the wall] Ve [...] D
Roy Lee: I'll tell you what's unbelievable... capt [...] D
Quentin: They watched us get arrested. We're pract [...] D
Jim Hickam: [at football practice] Hey, Lenny; tak [...] D
Elsie: Your father always has to be the big hero. [...] D
O'Dell: Besides, didn't your dad say no more rocke [...] D
O'Dell: God's honest truth, Homer. What are the ch [...] D
[imitating, incorrectly, Quentin's favorite saying [...] D
Quentin: [Homer calls Quentin Nigerian] I am not N [...] D
O'Dell: [after hearing train whistle coming toward [...] D
Homer: Man, we should be trying to get into that s [...] D
[Insisting John help his son] Elsie: If you don't [...] D
Homer: No. Coal mining may be your life, but it's [...] D
Homer: [to John] Dad, I may not be the best, but I [...] D
Homer: [jumps into Roy Lee's car to go to football [...] D
Roy Lee: [after a rocket launch] Holy shit, it's h [...] D
Homer: Listen, I'm sorry about what's going on aro [...] D
Quentin: What do you want to know about rockets? [...] D
[about Homer going to college] Jim Hickam: Yeah, [...] D
Homer: Well actually, my family raised me and send [...] D
Homer: Why're the jocks the only ones who get to g [...] D
John: [to Leon, about helping Homer] Don't you hav [...] D
Roy Lee: Let them have outer space. We got rock 'n [...] D
Roy Lee: H-O-M-E-R. D
Roy Lee: That's a good idea. Four unidentifiable h [...] D
Radio Announcer: [First line] If you have just tun [...] D
[a mine worker, formerly one of the Tuskegee Airme [...] D
Homer: [Reading the newspaper aloud] "The silvery [...] D
John: Elsie, I don't have the power to settle this [...] D
Homer: My family is not more important than my fri [...] D
Homer: [gunshot in background] Hey Quentin! [anot [...] D
Homer, Roy Lee, O'Dell: [after lighting thei [...] D
Roy Lee: That thing had better fly, or you can kis [...] D
Roy Lee: I don't know why they'd drop a bomb on th [...] D
Homer: [to his dad] Sure Dr. Von Braun is a great [...] D
Roy Lee: Are you sure we need this nozzle thing? [...] D
Roy Lee: What's an auk? O'Dell: It's a bird that [...] D
John: [after a cave in] Come on. Come on, Jensen. [...] D