Texas rancher Charles Farmer (Billy Bob Thornton) is convinced that he has the right stuff. Forced to leave the space program for family reasons before he ever got to fly a mission, the one-time NASA astronaut has never given up his long-cherished dream of orbiting the earth. How he goes about realizing that ambition lies behind Mark and Michael Polish' The Astronaut Farmer, an irresistible blend of family drama and satire that advocates not just having a dream, but living it—or at least trying to live it.
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