Movie Review: 'A Million Miles Away' charms and inspires with the tale of an unlikely astronaut

If ever there was an inspirational story about reaching for the stars, it’s “A Million Miles,” about the real-life journey of how a boy who grew up as a migrant farmworker became a NASA astronaut. It starts in the corn fields of Michoacan, Mexico, as José Hernández looks up into the sky in wonder, and it ends two hours later with him 200 miles above the Earth in the International Space Station. Biopics with outsized heroes can lay it on thick, but “A Million Miles” manages to keep its hero’s feet firmly on earth, largely thanks to stars Michael Peña and Rosa Salazar.