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<font size="2"><p>Movie Review
<font size="4"><br>October Sky</font>
<br>by Gary Johnson</font>
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<p><font size="3" face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"><i><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>O</b></font>ctober Sky</i> ventures into the well-familiar territory of the coming-of-age genre--a genre filled with potential pitfalls (such as a tendency for sticky sentimentality). However, director Joe Johnston, who directed the pleasant but unremarkable <i>The Rocketeer</i>, deftly avoids most of the genre's traps while creating an engaging and life-affirming portrait of life in a West Virginia coal mining town.
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