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The Astronaut Farmer (Original title)
Date: 2006 (Release)

Country: USA

Directed by: Michael Polish

Production company billing: ©2006. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Spring Creek Pictures production, a Polish Brothers Construction production. [end] Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS In Colour Prints by Technicolor MPAA: 43050 Filmed with Panavision cameras and lenses
Synopsis: Drama. An astronaut leaves NASA to save his family farm but keeps his dream of space travel alive by building his own rocket.
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Date: 2006Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalRuntime: 104 mins Language: English

Credits (87)
©: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Presented by: Warner Bros., Production Company: Spring Creek Productions, Production Company: Polish Brothers Construction, Executive Producer: J. Geyer Kosinski, Produced by: Mark Polish, Produced by: Paula Weinstein, Produced by: Len Amato, Michael Polish, Co-producer: Robert Benjamin, Associate Producer: Jonathan Sheldon, Production Co-ordinator: Rebecca Hilliard, Production Accountant: Daryl Lefever, Location Manager: David Manzanares, Post-production Supervisor: David E. Hall, Post-production Supervisor: Todd King, 2nd Unit Director: Mark Polish, Assistant Director (1st): Andrew Coffing, Assistant Director (2nd): Susan E. Walter, Assistant Director (2nd 2nd): Jai James, Script Supervisor: Jillian Giacomini, Script Supervisor (2nd Unit): Lois King, Casting by: Victoria Thomas, Casting (New Mexico): Jo Edna Boldin, Casting (Associate LA): Robyn Owen, Written by: Mark Polish, Michael Polish, Director of Photography: M. David Mullen, 2nd Unit Director of Photography: Phil Pfeiffer, Camera Operator (A): Theo Pingarelli, Camera Operator (C): Lynn Lockwood, Steadicam Operator: Theo Pingarelli, Steadicam Operator (2nd Unit): Beau Chaput, Chief Lighting Technician: Steve Litecky, Chief Lighting Technician (2nd Unit): Steve Mullen, Key Grip: Brad Heiner, Still Photographer: Richard Foreman, Visual Effects Supervisor: Jason Piccioni, Visual Effects by: CafeFX, Visual Effects by: Pacific Title & Art Studio, Warner Bros. Animation, Film Editor: James Haygood, Production Designer: Clark Hunter, Art Director: Jim Oberlander, Set Decorator: Marcia Calosio, Storyboard Artist: John McKey, Property Master: Keith Walters, Construction Co-ordinator: Chris Windisch, Costumes Designed by: Danny Glicker, Costume Supervisor: Daniela Moore, Key Make-up Artist: Dorothy Pearl, Make-up: Jessie Brown, Make-up For Mr [Billy Bob] Thornton: Lynne Eagan, Key Hair Stylist: Enid Arias, Hair Stylist: Lori Baker, Title Design: The Picture Mill, Titles: Pacific Title, Opticals: Pacific Title, Music by: Stuart Matthewman, Additional Music by: Rob Mathes, Music Score Performed by: Stuart Matthewman, Score Conducted by: Rob Mathes, Score Orchestrated by: Rob Mathes, Score Arranged by: Rob Mathes, Music Score Produced by: Stuart Matthewman, Music Editor: Jay Duerr, Music Score Mixed by: Stuart Matthewman, Orchestra Recorded by: Geoff Foster, Sound Design: Jon Johnson, Sound Mixer: Matthew Nicolay, Sound Mixer (2nd Unit): Bayard Carey, Boom Operator: Matthew Halbert, Re-recording Mixer: Steve Pederson, Brad Sherman, Supervising Sound Editor: Christopher Sheldon, Dialogue Editor: Miguel Rivera, Sound Effects Editor: Tom Younkman, Sound Effects Editor: Bruce Stubblefield, Sound Effects Editor: Keith Bilderbeck, ADR Mixer: Thomas J. O'Connell, Foley Supervisor: Christopher Trent, Foley Artist: Christopher Sheldon, Foley Artist: Jerry Trent, Foley Artist: Edward Steidele, Stunt Co-ordinator: Richard Diamond Farnsworth, Publicist: Bradley Jones
Cast (70)
Billy Bob Thornton (Charlie Farmer), Virginia Madsen (Audie Farmer), Bruce Dern (Hal), Tim Blake Nelson (Kevin Munchak), Max Thieriot (Shepherd Farmer), Jasper Polish (Stanley Farmer), Logan Polish (Sunshine Farmer), Mark Polish (Agent Mathis), Jon Gries (Agent Kilborne), Sal Lopez (Pepe Garcia), J.K. Simmons (Jacobsen), Kiersten Warren (Phyllis), Rick Overton (Arnold 'Arnie' Millard), Richard Edson (Chopper Miller), Elise Eberle (Madison Roberts), Julie White (Beth Goode), Graham Beckel (Frank), Marshall Bell (Judge Miller), Kathleen Arc (Mrs Harder), Lois Geary (Mrs Graham), Diane Anderson Mathis (reporter 1), William Lawrence Allen (reporter 2), Gregory Chase (NASA committee member), Forrest Fyre (State Senator), Janelle Sperow (State Congresswoman), Robert E. Fleischer (Will Beacon), Kathy Lamkin (Jodie), Charlie Brown (Phil), Gary Houston (Dr Livingston), Richard Holcomb (reporter 4), Adam Taylor (FBI agent 1), David House (FBI agent 2), John Lawrence Page (FBI agent 3), Mark Mathis (ABC news reporter), Matthew Kimbrough (Henry Malone), Richard McClarkin (Karl), Brian Mcallister (student), Jay Leno (himself), Doris Hargrave (Gretchen Boyd), George Mckelvey (Doug), Steve Cormier (appraiser), Scarlett Mcalister (local news reporter), Deborah Martinez (reporter 3), Ben Petry (child 1), Cheyenne Serano (child 2), Robyn Reede (secretary), Olive Gallagher (morning show host), Kevin Wiggins (rocket expert), Joan Findley (reporter), Mary Sue Evans (NASA expert), Ida Darvish (Italian anchorwoman), Eugene Nomura (Japanese anchorwoman), Vik Shah (Hindu anchorman), Yvans Jourdain (French anchorman), Jennifer Chu (Chinese anchorwoman), Dallas Raines (national anchorman), John Burke (reporter), Roy Costley (astro 'nut' local), J.D. Garfield (sky copter reporter), J. Michael 'Yak' Oliva (balloon game carnie), Richard Gunn (square dance caller), Marc Miles (rocket ride operator), Jenny Gabrielle (Vanessa), Hannah Wiggins (child 3), David Marcilla (child 4), Joey Solis (square dance caller 2), Mark Delisle (mission control 1), Robert Michael Lee (MP 1), David Sullivan (young man), Bruce Willis ([astronaut])