This film only improves with age. "October Sky" and its themes seem much more relevent today than in 1999. Looking back at other films from 1999, it seems that this film was slighted in terms of Oscar consideration. But that was another time completely. AMerica has been turned upside down.
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Right, that's why a Coal MIner's son could follow his dream and all of his partners go to college, which they never would have been able to do without a system that rewards hard work and ingenuity.
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LOL I can't deny that.
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I disagree. More kids can go to college now but the competition is tougher.
shareso we should pretend that in 1950 UK a working-class kid from a coal-mining district would have had either a chance of getting a good education and prestigious job compared to what they would have had now. Back then you did what your Daddy did, often, as portrayed in the movie.
It was like in the Springsteen song from The River, based in the 1960s, where he sang :"I come from down in the Valley, where, Mister,when you're young, they bring you up to do like your daddy done."
e was lucky to get out.
Or in Coal Miner's Daughter, where someone told Loretta's fiancé: "it's either coal mine, moonshine or moving down the line"