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Wide space dreams
Michael Peña stars as a man who spends his entire life dreaming of becoming an astronaut in director Alejandra Márquez Abella’s major film debut, “A Million Miles Away,” now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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BY MATT WARD, on September 20, 2023
Wide space dreams

Several years ago, an unlikely biopic about unlikely heroes in the American space program took the box office by storm as “Hidden Figures” made nearly $240 million and earned three Oscar nominations for telling the story of three African American mathematicians.

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