Rocket Science

1/19/20071h 41m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Life is easier done than said. ~

Overview:

Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route – he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem.

Director:

Jeffrey Blitz

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

stuttering
debate team
earnest
hopeful
underdogs and coming of age

Cast

Nicholas D'Agosto

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Ben Wekselbaum

Margo Martindale

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Coach Lumbly

Reece Thompson

~ as ~

Hal Hefner

Anna Kendrick

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Ginny Ryerson

Jonah Hill

~ as ~

Junior Philosopher

Denis O'Hare

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Doyle Hefner

Vincent Piazza

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Earl Hefner

Aaron Yoo

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Heston

Utkarsh Ambudkar

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Ram

Candace Hammer

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Townsend Prep Debater

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Reviews (1)

PE
Patrick E. Abe
Written 7 year(s) ago
3
The first thing I found WRONG about this movie is the title. "Rocket Science" suggests a movie like "October Sky," which IS about the Math required to calculate and understand rocketry. This (somewhat) off beat look at high school via a tongue-tied underachiever who is head hunted for the school debate team is more like "The Orator's Progress." (But accuracy won't/didn't sell the movie.)

All in all, a better-than-average teen movie, but nowhere near "The King's Speech," which grandly promenaded into History on a similar subject. 3/10