Question: Who starred in a 1999 film based on the memoir "Rocket Boys"?

full_context: Document 1: Quentin Wilson: Quentin Wilson (born November 21, 1942 in William Poca, West Virginia) is an American engineer and is one of the original Rocket Boys. His character in the Universal Pictures film "October Sky" was played by Chris Owen. He currently resides in Amarillo, Texas.
Document 2: Ron Kovic: Ronald Lawrence "Ron" Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, writer, and former United States Marine Corps sergeant, who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He is best known as the author of his 1976 memoir "Born on the Fourth of July", which was made into the Academy Award–winning eponymous film in 1989 directed by Oliver Stone.
Document 3: October Sky: October Sky is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Joe Johnston, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern. It is based on the true story of Homer H. Hickam, Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of "Sputnik 1" in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually became a NASA engineer.
Document 4: Roy Lee Cooke: Roy Lee Cooke (born December 25, 1941) is an American who was a founding member of the Big Creek Missile Agency and one of the original Rocket Boys. His character in the Universal Pictures film "October Sky" was played by William Lee Scott. He is the son of Wiley Clay Cooke and Carrie Austin Cooke of Coalwood, in McDowell County, West Virginia.
Document 5: Jake Gyllenhaal filmography: Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor who has appeared in over 35 motion pictures (including some yet to be released), three television programs, one commercial, and four music videos. He made his film debut in 1991 with a minor role in the comedy-drama "City Slickers". In 1993, he appeared in "A Dangerous Woman", a motion picture adaptation directed by Gyllenhaal's father Stephen Gyllenhaal and co-written by his mother Naomi Foner that was based on the novel of the same name by Mary McGarry Morris. In the following year, he portrayed Robin Williams' son in an episode of the police procedural television series ""; the episode was directed by his father. In 1999, Gyllenhaal starred in the Joe Johnston-directed drama "October Sky"; the film was received warmly by critics, and Gyllenhaal's portrayal of the NASA engineer Homer Hickam was praised.
Document 6: Jake Gyllenhaal: Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal ( ; born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. A member of the Gyllenhaal family and the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting as a child with a screen debut in "City Slickers" (1991), followed by roles in "A Dangerous Woman" (1993) and "Homegrown" (1998). His breakthrough performance was as Homer Hickam in "October Sky" (1999) and he garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Male Lead for playing the title character in the indie cult hit "Donnie Darko" (2001), in which he played a psychologically troubled teenager alongside his older sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal. He subsequently appeared in another indie film, "The Good Girl" (2002) and the climate fiction-disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow" (2004), portraying a student caught in a cataclysmic climate event.
Document 7: Back to the Moon: Back to the Moon was Homer Hickam's first book-length fiction, published in June 1999. It is an adult, scientific thriller with insider information about NASA.
Document 8: Hidden Figures: Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about black female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and other missions. The film also features Octavia Spencer as NASA supervisor Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monáe as NASA engineer Mary Jackson, with Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, and Mahershala Ali in supporting roles.
Document 9: October Sky (novel): October Sky (originally published as Rocket Boys) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town. It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release. Today, it is one of the most often picked community/library reads in the United States. It is also studied in many school systems around the world. "October Sky" was followed by "The Coalwood Way" (2000) and "Sky of Stone" (2002).
Document 10: Homer Hickam: Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer. His memoir "Rocket Boys" was a "New York Times" Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film "October Sky". Hickam has also written a number of best-selling memoirs and novels including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels. His books have been translated into many languages.
Document 11: Born on the Fourth of July: Born on the Fourth of July, published in 1976, is the best-selling autobiography by Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist. Kovic was born on July 4, 1946, and his book's ironic title echoed a famous line from George M. Cohan's patriotic 1904 song, "The Yankee Doodle Boy" (also known as "Yankee Doodle Dandy"). The book was adapted into a 1989 Academy Award winning film of the same name co-written by Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic, starring Tom Cruise as Kovic.
Document 12: The Coalwood Way: The Coalwood Way (2000) is the second memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. "The Coalwood Way" is a story of the Rocket Boys and Coalwood. Homer calls it an "equal," rather than a sequel because the story happens during the same timeframe as the first book. Today, it is one of the most often picked community/library reads in the United States. It is also studied in many school systems around the world. The Coalwood Way (2000) is followed by "Sky of Stone" (2002), and preceded by "October Sky" (1998).
Document 13: Joe Johnston: Joseph Eggleston "Joe" Johnston II (born May 13, 1950) is an American film director and former effects artist best known for such effects-driven movies as "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" (1989), "Jumanji" (1995) and "Jurassic Park III" (2001). These movies include a number of period films such as "The Rocketeer" (1991), "The Wolfman" (2010), and "" (2011). In 1999 Johnston won acclaim for the biographical drama "October Sky".
Document 14: Chris Cooper: Christopher Walton "Chris" Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1980s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including the drama "American Beauty" (1999), the biopic about a NASA engineer titled "October Sky" (1999), the action spy film "The Bourne Identity" (2002), the biographical sports psychological drama thriller film "Seabiscuit" (2003), the biographical film about Truman Capote", Capote" (2005), the geopolitical thriller "Syriana" (2005), the action-thriller "The Kingdom" (2007), the crime drama "The Town" (2010), and the musical comedy film "The Muppets" (2011). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries "Lonesome Dove", which became one of the most successful Westerns in history.
Document 15: Moon Shot: Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon is a book written by Mercury Seven astronaut Alan Shepard, with NBC News correspondent Jay Barbree and Associated Press space writer Howard Benedict. Astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton is also listed as an author, although he died before the project was completed and was an author in name only. The book was published in 1994. It was turned into a television miniseries that aired on TBS in the United States in 1994. The miniseries was narrated by Barry Corbin (as Slayton) and featured interviews with several American astronauts as well as a few Russian cosmonauts. Slayton died before the miniseries completed production in 1993 and the miniseries is dedicated to his memory.
ground_truth: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern