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Rocket Science

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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.

Status: Released

Released Date: 2007-01-19

Runtime: 101 mins

Director: Jeffrey Blitz

Writer: Jeffrey Blitz

Spoken language: English

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Original title: Rocket Science

Production Companies: RocketScience, W B I Films, Duly Noted, HBO Films

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Nicholas D'Agosto

Margo Martindale

Reece Thompson

Anna Kendrick

Jonah Hill

Denis O'Hare

Vincent Piazza

Aaron Yoo

Utkarsh Ambudkar

Townsend Prep Debater

Candace Hammer

Juliet Hefner

Lisbeth Bartlett

English Teacher

Virginia House

Plainsboro Lunch Lady

Marilyn Yoblick

Mr. Lewinsky

Maury Ginsberg

Reviews

Otokichi786

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

2018-09-24

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