The Butterfly Effect (2004)

While suffering blackouts - caused by reading his own journals - a young man travels into parallel universes of his life, and each time he tries to undo the catastrophes to others that he has caused to them.

Basically, yet another (supernatural) time travel odyssey, this effort does suspensefully add a moral component and an culminating urgency to resolve the imminent paradoxes.

Maltin**: "Interesting premise takes much too long to develop; in the meantime the film wallows in unpleasantness."

October Sky (1999)

The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

Halliwell (no star): "Based on the biography of a man who became a NASA engineer, this is a gently nostalgic flag-waver of smalltown Americana in the 50s, amiable but forgettable."

Maltin***1/2: "Sincere, heartwarming drama...Rich performances, well-drawn characters, and an old-fashioned sense of can-do American spirit make this something special." 

Tasteful produced and well-cast movie with a touch of nostalgia; entertaining, but once again an American success story of an individual making his way against social obstacles.