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Rocket Science (2007)

R 01/19/2007 (US) Comedy, Drama 1h 41m

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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.

Jeffrey Blitz

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Nicholas D'Agosto

Ben Wekselbaum
Margo Martindale

Coach Lumbly
Reece Thompson

Hal Hefner
Anna Kendrick

Ginny Ryerson
Jonah Hill

Junior Philosopher
Denis O'Hare

Doyle Hefner
Vincent Piazza

Earl Hefner
Aaron Yoo

Heston
Utkarsh Ambudkar

Ram
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A review by Patrick E. Abe

3.0

Written by Patrick E. Abe on September 24, 2018

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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