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Video Business, May, 2007
By Irv Slifkin
WARNER
Street: July 10
Prebook: June 5
> Genial family drama with a sensitive turn from Billy Bob Thornton.
'Frank Capra Heads to Outer Space' is a good way to describe this blend of feel-good movie and celluloid fantasy. Billy Bob Thornton is Charles Farmer, a former Air Force flyer who has returned to his family farm for financial reasons but still dreams of joining NASA and having his day in space. Supporting his desire is his waitress wife (Virginia Madsen) and three kids, and when Farmer's obsession soars to new heights, he begins banking everything he has on building a rocket in his barn. The quirky independent sibling filmmaking team Mark Polish and Michael Polish (Twin Falls, Idaho ;...
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