Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Directed by Richard LinklaterWhere to Watch Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
- Kevin WardJuly 5, 2025A gigantic feel good cup of nostalgia from Richard Linklater. Linklater is a master at capturing the vibe of a particular time and place in his films, in this instance 1960’s Houston during the space race. I’m not a big fan of the rotoscoping animation from his other films A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life, but I actually thought it worked rather exceptionally here. The imagery is crisp and clean and not as loose and wavy as the aforementioned films. It has an imaginative fantastical element weaved into the narrative, but otherwise it’s a pretty simple slice of life / coming of age drama. That nostalgia though is a helluva drug and it gets me almost every time.
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood Trivia
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood was released on April 1, 2022.
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood was directed by Richard Linklater.
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood has a runtime of 1h 39m.
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood was produced by Richard Linklater, Mike Blizzard, Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix.
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.
The key characters in Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood are Stan (Milo Coy), Grown Up Stan (voice) (Jack Black), Mom (Lee Eddy).
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is rated PG-13.
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is an Animation, Adventure, Family film.
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood has an audience rating of 8.1 out of 10.