October Sky Movie Review

     We watched a movie in class called October Sky.  It was about these four boys who built a rocket that won them a scholarship to go to college. The main character in the movie is called Homer Hikums. His dream is to build a rocket that goes up in space. He has problems doing that because, his dad wants to be a miner just like him. Homer doesn't agree with that and goes on with his idea. His teacher is one of the people that supports his idea and pushes him to go on with his dream. She helps him out a bit by giving him a math book to study from. When homer is finally ready with his idea he and his friends build a headquarters and launching pad to test their rockets. Homers dad throws out his stuff in the rain to discourage homer from following his dream but homer doesn't back down and continues. He tests out his first rocket in this front yard, and blows up his moms fence. He builds more and more rockets but they all fail to launch by exploding at lift off. Then one day a man goes to watch homer and his friends launch a rocket but the rocket almost hurts the man. The man suggests that the get an additional part for their rocket to assure that the rocket doesn't blow up. Homer and his friends pull out train tracks from abandoned train tracks to earn money for the part and eventually they get enough money. They add the additional part for the rocket but the rocket still keeps blowing up. They then figure out that the rockets keep blowing up because the liquids in the rockets overheat, causing the explosions. They do what they have to do to get all the pieces they need to make sure that the rocket fly's. On the day of their launch, a big crowd comes nd watches. They all think that the rocket will blow up and just came to se him fail again, but when homer and his friends shoot the rocket off, it soars beautifully through the air. The next following days homer and his friends get arrested for supposedly starting a forest fire, then the cops ban them from ever shooting another rocket. Homer and his friends prove themselves innocent by showing where the rocket landed and where the fire started. More drought happens when homer is forced to drop out and become a miner because his father gets injured when the mine blows up. His teacher is very upset with his decision and refuses to talk to him. After a few weeks of mining homer quits and has an argument with his dad about mining and how it is his dads life and not his. Homer goes on with his dream and wins at the world science fair to earn a scholarship for he and his friends to go to college. He returns to find out that his teacher was diagnosed with a type of cancer. On the final launch day of  his rocket, homer invite his dad to come ad watch, but his dad declines the invite. Later on while homer is about to launch the rocket, his dad shows up while homer gives a speech about the people who inspired him to go on with his dream. Homer launches the rocket with his dad and the rocket soars in the air miles and miles. all in all the movie was great and had great characters in it.