Billy Bob Thorton plays a farmer named Farmer who also happens to have built an Atlas rocket in his barn with a single-man capsule on top for a civilian orbital flight.
Then government bureaucracy and Homeland Security get involved and it becomes a story about how there is no real freedom left in America.
It made a valid point here and there, but overall I didn't find it to be an enjoyable movie.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."