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 Astronaut Farmer, The (2006)
IMDB rating: 6.60
Plot: Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he’s an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he’s built and wants to take into space. It’s his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel; the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan - it’s post-9/11, after all. His wife is angry when she finds out their bank is initiating foreclosure. Charlie fears failure and decides, precipitously, to launch. Are twenty-first century American dreams just a sign of insanity? Are those who believe in dreamers only fools?
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i get this movie here Astronaut Farmer, The cheap
Directors: Polish Michael
Actors: Thornton Billy Bob,Thieriot Max,Dern Bruce,Polish Mark,Gries Jon,Nelson Tim Blake,Lopez Sal,Simmons J.K.,Overton Rick,Edson Richard,Adventure,Drama,
Was there really an astronaut farmer?
Ir is just a movie.
Charles Farmer is a former astronaut-in-training who was discharged from the military before he could fulfill his dream of becoming a vital part of NASA. Having missed the opportunity to travel into space, he decides to build a replica of the historic Mercury-Atlas in the barn on his secluded ranch in the fictional town of Story, Texas, using all his assets and facing foreclosure as a result. When he begins making inquiries about purchasing rocket fuel, the FBI and FAA step in to investigate, and the ensuing publicity thrusts Farmer into the spotlight and makes him a media darling. The USA Patriot Act is blamed for allowing a search of his property without a court order, though there is no evidence this act ever affected private space development.
Farmer’s first launch is delayed by endless red tape created by government officials, who seek to stall him beyond his deadline to foreclose on the farm. Farmer is denied the fuel he wishes, which would be liquid hydrogen. His ranch facing financial ruin, he panics and somehow launches his rocket before it is ready and without the proper fuel. His rocket falls over and horizontally blasts out of an old wooden barn. (An overlooked technical flaw is that no wooden barn could possibly survive the thousand+ degree heat and blast of a rocket.)
Farmer nearly dies with head trauma and other injuries after his capsule is thrown from the rocket. Spectators and their vehicles are nearly crushed. During the months he spends recuperating, public interest in his project wanes, and when he recovers sufficiently to start anew, he is able to do so in relative privacy with the support of his wife Audrey, his son Shepard, and daughters Stanley and Sunshine. An inheritance left by his father-in-law Hal allows him to settle all his debts and finance reconstruction of his rocket which he succeeds in launching. As officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are arresting his one lone illegal-alien farmhand, the rocket rises out of the barn. After orbiting Earth nine times, he returns safely.
Dune | Oct 14, 2009
Yes, not sure which one.
Tigger | Oct 13, 2009
No, Astronaut Farmer is a movie not based on any true events.
It is not based on true characters.
Kyle M | Oct 13, 2009
Well… Luke Skywalker use to live on a Moisture Farm on Tatooine
Hawkeye Pierce | Oct 13, 2009
don’t believe them, it was based on real events. or it wasn’t. whatever.
Eric P | Oct 13, 2009
Yes, to a certain point….!!
remoserjr107 | Oct 13, 2009
No,that was a fictional character created in a movie-it could never happen in real life. It takes a team of scientists and technicians to launch a spacecraft at NASA-you think a farmer can build one in his barn?
Alion | Oct 13, 2009
Sorry but No there was not a Astronaut Farmer, it was a good movie, but just a movie thought up by some one thought up and Holly Wood made a picture of a Farmer that wanted to go into space.
It is possible that something could happen just like that, one day a show, the next year some one has don it.
Stom | Oct 13, 2009
Those are dreams which may come true.
Buzzzbe | Oct 13, 2009
I don’t think so
old man | Oct 14, 2009
No but me really like that movie…. so did rest of family…. it was gooood…!
His Majesty John Redcorn VIII | Oct 14, 2009
i don’t think there actually was!
goingmad | Oct 14, 2009