Thunderpants

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.

Thunderpants is a 2002 sci-fi family movie directed by Peter Hewitt, starring Simon Callow, Paul Giamatti, Stephen Fry. It holds an IMDb rating of 3.8/10 from 6,407 votes and runs 1h 27m.