Rocket Science

Name: Rocket Science
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2007-01-19

2007 · 1h 41m

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.

Directed by Jeffrey Blitz

Cast

Nicholas D'Agosto

Ben Wekselbaum

Margo Martindale

Coach Lumbly

Reece Thompson

Hal Hefner

Anna Kendrick

Ginny Ryerson

Jonah Hill

Junior Philosopher

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Patrick E. Abe

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

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Patrick E. Abe

7 years agoRead on TMDB