The film is set in Coalwood, West Virginia in the year 1957. The coal mine is the town's largest employer and almost every man living in the town works in the mines. John Hickam (Chris Cooper), the mine superintendent, loves his job and hopes that his boys, Jim (Scott Miles) and Homer (Jake Gyllenhaal), will one day join him in his mine. When it appears that Jim will receive a football scholarship to attend college, this leaves Homer to fulfill his father's dream, although his mother, Elsie (Natalie Canerday), hopes for more for her son.

• William Lee Scott
• Chris Cooper
• Laura Dern
• Jake Gyllenhaal
• Chad Lindberg
• Chris Owen
• Chris Ellis
• Elya Baskin
• David Dwyer
• Natalie Canerday
• Scott Miles
• Randy Stripling
• Courtney Cole-Fendley
• Terry Loughlin
• Kailie Hollister

Genres:

Biography, History, Drama, Family

Release date:

1999-02-19

External links:

October Sky at IMDB October Sky at Wikipedia