This made me sick to my stomach. Extremely thin plot – so, a farmer wants to go into space….he seems to care more about this than he does his loved ones….and that about does it. The rest is ridiculous cliche small-town cheese & a handful of characters with no dimension that make up “the family”. The government “baddies” are cartoonish overdone stereotypes, and with lines like “Without the Rocket, we’re just a dysfunctional family!” one could imagine how unpleasant The Astronaut Farmer is…and therefore would find no reason to sit through it.

having read the other entries, I’m wondering if the people who didn’t like this flick noticed it was called ASTRONAUT FARMER! And since when has any movie plot been plausible?

Now that that is out of my system, I thought this was a lovely movie. The wife was a little too selfless for my taste but I believe in the dream and yeah I believe this could happen and the landscape was lovely.

I liked it.

Got this for the kids (although I am a bigger fan of most of their movies then they are.) The movie is a bit slow moving for the younger viewers with long unnecessary dialogue. The story line is a bit weak for the older viewers. The scenery fails to capture the imagination and overall it was one of those movies you sort of say .. yea it was worth watching .. once.

Nice to see a movie about following one’s dream, but please, make it about something plausible, not a 2-man team launching a manned rocket into space and orbiting Earth 13 times, then magically fixing a dead space capsule by basically plugging it in.

Watch The Pursuit of Happyness instead. Much more realistic, and a goal that you’re more likely to identify with.

So depressing but it still followed that familiar, family movie theme—follow your dreams and in the end everything will turn out for the best. Ugh.

I ended up watching this on my flight to Denver airport.

I enjoyed the typical theme of the man who goes for his dream no matter how crazy and rejected it is, considering I’m quite the daydreamer.

I give the creators credit that they came up with a very original plot and that the cinematography provided a real vision of stark countryside (you can see why the man wanted to go into space) but their approach to the plot just didn’t sit right with me. It didn’t trick you into suspending disbelief at all.

If their isn’t anything else on TV one night and this happens to be on, it’s worth a look but don’t bother paying for it.

I mean, even if you ignore the fact that the storyline is a complete load of old bollocks, this was still schmaltzy crap. Plus, the son’s name is Shepherd Farmer. WTF? Shite. Miss it.