A charmingly standard cornfields to space flight biopic that feels as vibrant and magnanimous as it is formulaic and platitudinous. Sometimes, an earnest, by-the-book, old-fashioned inspirational story is just what we need. And this, for personal reasons, tore me into a million pieces (my late cousin recommended it a few weeks before his tragic passing, and in retrospect, the film felt portentously poignant and serendipitously meaningful in ways too personal to express).
The film’s congenial optimism and sentimental goodwill reminded…