it was released in theaters, according to Wikipedia. I only ever saw at school and on VHS from my family’s copy
I’m a part-time substitute teacher and one day in a high school engineering class last year, i was instructed to play October Sky. I had this full circle realization that the only time I ever saw the movie was in school as a student, and then there I was, playing the movie for another generation of kids, thus continuing the cycle.
Oh I know. I saw it in theaters. It is just funny how students across the country saw it with no overarching planning. Did anyone have the Donald Duck math movie? We had to watch that a lot.
In my junior year of high school my social studies teacher was also one of the assistant coaches for the football team and they were really good that year and it seemed like every day he would just have us watch Rudy while he worked on stuff for that weekend’s game lol. I think there was another more ridiculous movie (in terms of serving a purpose for social studies) he’d put on but can’t remember what it was but I feel like it was Independence Day or something lol
Math teachers have a really short list of movies to pull from. Science can be tough but there are movies about some inventors. The hardest part of being an English teacher is picking out which movie version of a book to use.
And I thought I knew all the Bros. film work. I had to look it up on Wikipedia just to make sure and yup, looks legit.
It came out like 4 months after Titanic so for sure the movie's marketing campaign was playing up Leo's involvement.