Directed by:
Michael PolishScreenplay:
Michael PolishCinematography:
M. David MullenComposer:
Stuart MatthewmanCast:
Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Max Thieriot, Jasper Polish, Bruce Dern, Mark Polish, Jon Gries, Tim Blake Nelson, J.K. Simmons, Kiersten Warren (more)VOD (1)
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All systems are "Go" for Charles Farmer. He's faced bank foreclosure, neighborhood naysayers and a government alarmed by his huge purchase of high-grade fuel, but now he's ready to blast into space inside the homemade rocket he built in his barn. Just be home in time for dinner, Charlie. Billy Bob Thornton portrays Charlie in this charmer about chasing dreams...and about what it means to be a family. 10,000 pounds of rocket fuel alone can't lift Charlie into the heavens. He needs a launch/recovery crew, and he has one of the best: his wife (Virginia Madsen) and children, dreamers all. They have liftoff. Our spirits have uplift. Gravity cannot hold down our dreams. (Warner Bros. US)
(more)Cast
Billy Bob Thornton
USA
Best movies:
Love Actually (2003)
Sling Blade (1996)
Dead Man (1995)
Virginia Madsen
USA
Best movies:
The Rainmaker (1997)
The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy? (2005)
Max Thieriot
USA
Best movies:
Disconnect (2012)
Texas Rising (2015) (series)
Chloe (2009)
Jasper Polish
USA
Best movies:
Big Sur (2013)
The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021)
Bruce Dern
USA
Best movies:
Django Unchained (2012)
Coming Home (1978)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Mark Polish
USA
Best movies:
Twin Falls Idaho (1999)
For Lovers Only (2011)
The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
Jon Gries
USA
Best movies:
L'Enlèvement (2008)
Men in Black (1997)
Twin Falls Idaho (1999)
Tim Blake Nelson
USA
Best movies:
Minority Report (2002)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Detachment (2011)
J.K. Simmons
USA
Best movies:
Klaus (2019)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Whiplash (2014)
Kiersten Warren
USA
Best movies:
Independence Day (1996)
Bicentennial Man (1999)
The Snow Walker (2003)
Rick Overton
USA
Best movies:
Groundhog Day (1993)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
A Plumm Summer (2007)
Richard Edson
USA
Best movies:
Platoon (1986)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Graham Beckel
USA
Best movies:
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) (TV movie)
Marshall Bell
USA
Best movies:
Voyage au centre de la mémoire (1990)
Stand by Me (1986)
Heaven & Earth (1993)
Kathy Lamkin
Best movies:
No Country for Old Men (2007)
The Life of David Gale (2003)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Jay Leno
USA
Best movies:
Barbra: The Concert (1994) (concert)
American Hot Wax (1978)
Cars (2006)
David Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
Argo (2012)
The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
Primer (2004)
Evan Adrian
Best movies:
Trade (2007)
Frontera (2014)
The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
Bruce Willis
West Germany
Best movies:
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Die Hard (1988)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Elise Eberle
USA
Best movies:
Breathe In (2013)
Wild Hogs (2007)
A Call to Spy (2019)