Trailer
Summary
Bill Nye is retiring his kid show act in a bid to become more like his late professor, astronomer Carl Sagan. Sagan dreamed of launching a spacecraft that could revolutionize interplanetary exploration.
Good for
- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Kids
Where to watch
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+18)
Critics 87Audiences 69GoodWatch 77
Tomatometer100%
Metascore73
Audience score72%
IMDb6.8
User score6.6
Running time
1 h 35 min
A typical length for documentaries
typical 9695Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 6 countries, rent or buy in 3 more
Released
2017
April 10, 2017
9 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
and 3 moreDirecting · 2
- Jason Sussberg Director, Producer
- David Alvarado Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Production · 15
- Henry S. Rosenthal Executive Producer
- Mary Rohlich Executive Producer
- Chad Troutwine Executive Producer
- Walker Deibel Executive Producer
- Seth Gordon Producer
- Nick Pampenella Producer
Editing · 1
- Annukka Lilja Editor
Sound · 2
- William Ryan Fritch Original Music Composer
- Heikki Kossi Foley Artist
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