The Astronaut Farmer (2006)

Directors

Michael Polish

Cast

Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Max Thieriot, Jasper Polish, Logan Polish, Bruce Dern, Mark Polish, Jon Gries, Tim Blake Nelson, Sal Lopez, J.K. Simmons, Kiersten Warren, Rick Overton, Richard Edson, Elise Eberle, Julie White, Graham Beckel, Marshall Bell, Kathleen Arc, Bill Allen, Kathy Lamkin, Gary Houston, Adam Taylor, David House, Matthew Kimbrough, Jay Leno, Steve Cormier, Scarlett McAlister, Benjamin Petry, Robyn Reede, Kevin Wiggins, Ida Darvish, Eugene Nomura, Yvans Jourdain, John Burke, Esodie Geiger, J.D. Garfield, Richard Gunn, Jenny Gabrielle, Mark DeLisle, David Sullivan, Evan Adrian, Bruce Willis

The story

Charles Farmer is a former United States Air Force fighter pilot and astronaut-in-training who reluctantly resigned from the space program and was discharged from the military before he could fulfill his dream of becoming a vital part of NASA. He did so in order to take over his family's failing ranch in Texas after his financially strapped father's suicide prior to the ranch being foreclosed on. Having missed the opportunity to travel into space, he decides to build a working replica of the historic Mercury-Atlas rocket and spacecraft in the barn on his secluded ranch in the fictional town of Story, Texas, using all his assets and facing…

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