In 2003, Mark and Michael Polish made Northfork, though just barely. The brothers — who are also responsible for art-house fave Twin Falls Idaho, about conjoined twins who fall for the same woman — ...

"The Astronaut Farmer" is the story of one man's attempt to launch a rocket into space out of his own backyard farm. It's an American tale of living in a fantasy world and going against all odds when ...

OK, don’t make a mistake: this isn’t really a movie about space. The Astronaut Farmer is the quintessential American Story. That’s right; it’s the classic, archetypical, consummate, perfected American ...

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This family film about a former astronaut determined to get into space on his own was made by the sibling team of Michael and Mark Polish (they wrote and Michael directed), normally creators of ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Departing from the dark, twisted sensibility of their feature "Twin Falls Idaho," in which Mark and Michael Polish seemed to have channeled the Coen brothers and a ...

Out on the Texas prairie a man on horseback rescues a lost calf. Making the scene memorable is the rider's garb. Instead of jeans and Stetson he's sealed into a military-style high-altitude pressure ...

After 20 years of playing salacious characters in eccentric films, Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen are breaking into the mainstream. Thornton, who is also a writer and director, received his ...

The fourth film from Mark and Michael Polish will very likely alienate fans of their earlier work, who will wonder what became of their rueful inscrutability and scoff at the cornpone, ...

"Astronaut farmer? Why, he's a guy who works on a ranch and then goes in to space." This farmer is also named Farmer, which makes me believe an 8-year-old had a hand writing the script.