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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

Original title: Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure
  • 20222022
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 37m
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7.2/10
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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.
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A coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.A coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.A coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
9.5K
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POPULARITY
4,085
124
    • Richard Linklater
    • Richard Linklater
  • Stars
    • Milo Coy
    • Jack Black(voice)
    • Lee Eddy
    • Richard Linklater
    • Richard Linklater
  • Stars
    • Milo Coy
    • Jack Black(voice)
    • Lee Eddy
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 63User reviews
    • 118Critic reviews
    • 79Metascore
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    Richard Linklater and Glen Powell on Nostalgia in 'Apollo 10 1/2'
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    Milo Coy
    Milo Coy
    • Stan
    Jack Black
    Jack Black
    • Grown Up Stan
    • (voice)
    Lee Eddy
    Lee Eddy
    • Mom
    Bill Wise
    Bill Wise
    • Dad
    Natalie L'Amoreaux
    Natalie L'Amoreaux
    • Vicky
    Josh Wiggins
    Josh Wiggins
    • Steve
    Jessica Brynn Cohen
    Jessica Brynn Cohen
    • Jana
    Sam Chipman
    • Greg
    Danielle Guilbot
    Danielle Guilbot
    • Stephanie
    Zachary Levi
    Zachary Levi
    • Kranz
    Glen Powell
    Glen Powell
    • Bostick
    Larry Jack Dotson
    Larry Jack Dotson
    • Grandfather
    Mona Lee Fultz
    Mona Lee Fultz
    • Grandmother #1
    Jennifer Griffin
    Jennifer Griffin
    • Grandmother #2
    Holt Boggs
    Holt Boggs
    • Sam the Rocket Man
    Reese Armstrong
    • Tony
    Natalie Joy
    Natalie Joy
    • Music Teacher
    Suzanne Deal Booth
    • Science Teacher
      • Richard Linklater
      • Richard Linklater
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Jack Black, who voices older Stan, has a personal connection to NASA and the space program. His mother, Judith Love Cohen, helped develop the Abort-Guidance System which ultimately helped get Apollo 13 back to Earth, while she was pregnant with Jack.
    • Goofs
      When Stan's sister Jana puts the Monkees self-titled debut album on the turntable, it is shown to have been released on the Sundazed label, which was a reissue edition marketed in 1996. The original 1967 album was released in the U.S. on the Colgems label.
    • Quotes

      Bostick: We accidentally built the lunar module a little too small. But we're not gonna let that set us back.

      Stan: How'd that happen?

      Bostick: Are you good at math?

      Stan: Yeah.

      Bostick: Do you get a perfect 100 on every test?

      Stan: No.

      Bostick: Okay.

    • Crazy credits
      The credits start rolling while the camera spans over the surface of the Moon and reveals the Earth in the background.
    • Connections
      Featured in AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast: Howard & Grant (2020)
    • Soundtracks
      Barabajagal
      Written by Donovan (as Donovan Leitch)

      Performed by Donovan with The Jeff Beck Group

      Courtesy of Epic Records and The state51 Conspiracy

      By arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment

    User reviews63

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    9/10
    A captivating portrait of growing up during the space race.
    Stanley (Jack Black as adult and Milo Coy as child) comes of age in late 60s Houston, Texas against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing where the nostalgic reality mixes with childhood fantasy of being the first boy on the moon on a secret NASA mission for Apollo 10 ½.

    Apollo 10 ½ is the latest film from Richard Linklater. Linklater had the idea back in 2004, inspired by his childhood growing up in 60s Houston with development taking shape in 2018. Originally intended to be a live-action film, when the project was set up at Netflix, Linklater instead decided to do the film as an animated project similar to his films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly due to the "playful" nature of animation. Linklater has created a nostalgic but true to life picture of growing up in the 1960s during the emergence of the space age.

    Jack Black narrates the thoughts of our protagonist Stanley, and Black's delivery is pitch perfect in describing 60s Houston and the various contemporary trends, pop culture, and political and social events as witnessed by Stanley as a child. We get a sense of growing up during a particular time and place but as distorted from the nostalgic view of someone who was a child during those events. References are made to political and social strife of the time and the way in which it's relayed plays to true to how children experience those kinds of events. Even the landing of Apollo 11 covered in the film discusses the little seen outcry from those claiming it was a waste of money and resources that could've been applied elsewhere using archival footage interspersed with the narrative footage to give a glimpse into contemporary mindsets of the time. The animation is really solid per the standards set by Linklater's other films of this type and I think Linklater uses it effectively to evoke feelings of nostalgia mixed with the childish space fantasy that many kids fascinated with space travel have conjured themselves at one point or another. Along with the larger events we also get insight into familial and social dynamics of the era with fond reminiscence of the neighborhood pyromaniacs, the endless cycle of at least one kid having a cast, or various other mischief and shenanigans of the day.

    Linklater has created a capture of the space race and the surrounding era in which it occurred through an honest but nostalgic lens. Jack Black's narration is sincere and credible and the capture of smaller childhood distractions intermixed with larger scale events in the background gives us the feeling of being there that only the best storytellers can give.
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    • IonicBreezeMachine
    • Apr 1, 2022

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      • April 1, 2022 (United States)
      • United States
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      • Texas, USA
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      • Minnow Mountain
      • Submarine
      • Detour Filmproduction
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    • 1 hour 37 minutes
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      • Dolby Digital
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