Your father always has to be the big hero. I swear if he dies I won’t shed a tear.
Elsie
- Director
- Joe Johnston
- Cast
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott, Chad Lindberg
- Year
- 1999
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Genres
- biographical film, teen film, coming-of-age film
- Country
- United States
Facts: Wikidata (CC0), as of 2026-07-09
No. Coal mining may be your life, but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.
Homer
That’s a good idea. Four unidentifiable high school students lost their lives early this morning when their toy rocket exploded.
O'Dell
I don’t know why they’d drop a bomb on this place, be a heck of a waste of a bomb.
Roy Lee
Prodigenous!
Roy Lee