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October Sky is a good movie, but Hickam's memoir could have yielded a great one--less formulaic, more nuanced.
The real Hickam Sr. didn't want his son to be a miner but a mining engineer ; he longed to see the boy follow in his footsteps but to go beyond them, too, and to use his science to make people safer.
It's a memoir by Homer Hickam Jr., a retired NASA engineer who grew up in Coalwood, W.Va., and who got himself out of the mines (where his father was the superintendent) by throwing himself into the fledgling science of rocketry.
The most critical reviewers call it predictable: "[T]he visuals, the dialogue, the sentiments, all seem lifted right out of the Boy Scout Handbook " (Peter Rainer, New York ). (Visit Hickam's high school's Web page to see the hometown reaction to the film.)
The story, based on Homer Hickam Jr.'s memoir Rocket Boys , follows a few backwoods kids in the 1950s who use amateur rocketry as a steppingstone to college scholarships and an escape from the coal mines where their fathers work.