Is October Sky actually good?

October Sky sits in the 91.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 91.1% of them.

How does October Sky compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, October Sky lands in the 93.3% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is October Sky's score based on?

269 calibrated reviewers stand behind October Sky's score.

1999

global pct

91.1

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

October Sky

Name: October Sky
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Released: 1999

Scored from 269 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

91.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

93.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

99.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

269 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Inspired by the 1957 launch of Sputnik, a West Virginia coal miner's son becomes determined to build his own rockets, despite the skepticism of his stern father who expects him to follow him into the mines. With the support of a teacher and three friends, he pursues a dream that could earn him a college scholarship and a way out of the dying coal town.

October Sky (1999) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and family genres.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,646 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 269 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 291 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.