Farmer still faces some serious obstacles from your standard filmic opponents of starry-eyed dreamers everywhere, including a bank that wants to foreclose on his ranch, government bureaucrats who won't approve his flight and FBI agents who see him as a threat to national security. He gives speeches about the value of holding onto your dreams as the score swells in the background, and these moments are sometimes overdone and certainly clichéd. But the way that the Polishes so enthusiastically embrace those clichés and integrate them with their slightly off-kilter worldview is what makes The Astronaut Farmer a success, a cuddly mainstream film for weird outcasts everywhere.
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The Astronaut Farmer
Farmer still faces some serious obstacles from your standard filmic opponents of starry-eyed dreamers everywhere, including a bank that wants to foreclose on his ranch, government bureaucrats who won't approve his flight and FBI agents who see him as a threat to national security. He gives speeches about the value of holding onto your dreams as the score swells in the background, and these moments are sometimes overdone and certainly clichéd. But the way that the Polishes so enthusiastically embrace those clichés and integrate them with their slightly off-kilter worldview is what makes The Astronaut Farmer a success, a cuddly mainstream film for weird outcasts everywhere.