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Directed By: Joe Johnston
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern

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Year: (1999)
MPAA: PG
Genre: Docudrama
Overview: Not wanting to be a miner, a young West Virginian (Jake Gyllenhaal) builds rockets with his friends and later becomes a NASA scientist.

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Cast And Crew

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal	Homer Hickam
Chris Cooper	John Hickam
Laura Dern	Miss Frieda Riley
Chris Owen	Quentin Wilson
William Scott	Roy Lee Cook
Chad Lindberg	Sherman O'Dell
Natalie Canerday	Elsie Hickam
Scott Miles	Jim Hickam

Randy Stripling	Leon Bolden
Chris Ellis	Principal Turner
Scott Thomas	Jim Hickam
O. Winston Link	Locomotive Engineer
Courtney Fendley	Dorothy Platt
Frank Schuler	Moonshiner
Kailie Hollister	Valentine Carmina