An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.
Acting
Paul Giamatti fully commits to fart science
Practical Effects
The sound design deserves an Oscar or prison time
Costume
Space suits built for... ventilation purposes
Director
Peter Hewitt
Simon Callow
Sir John Osgood
Stephen Fry
Sir Anthony Silk
Celia Imrie
Miss Rapier
Paul Giamatti
Johnson J. Johnson
Ned Beatty
Gen. Ed Sheppard
Rupert Grint
Alan A. Allen
Bronagh Gallagher
Mrs. Smash
Victor McGuire
Mr. Smash
Adam Godley
Placido P. Placeedo
Leslie Phillips
Judge
Robert Hardy
Doctor
Anna Popplewell
Denise Smash
Josh Herdman
Damon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Simon Callow later called this 'the most embarrassing thing I've done,' which includes being in Four Weddings.
This film exists because 2002 was legally the Wild West of children's cinema, post-Shrek gross-out gold rush.
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