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October Sky is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern. The screenplay, based on the memoir of the same name, follows Homer H. Hickam Jr.'s journey from a coal miner's son to a NASA engineer, inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957.

Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film starring Billy Bob Thornton as the intellectually challenged Karl Childers, who forms a unique bond with a mother and son in Arkansas.

Biloxi Blues is a 1988 American military comedy-drama film where a Jewish teenager from Brooklyn is drafted into the US Army during World War II and sent to basic training in Mississippi.