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19/01/2007 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.

  1. Jeffrey Blitz

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Nicholas D'Agosto

    Ben Wekselbaum

  2. Margo Martindale

    Coach Lumbly

  3. Reece Thompson

    Hal Hefner

  4. Anna Kendrick

    Ginny Ryerson

  5. Jonah Hill

    Junior Philosopher

  6. Denis O'Hare

    Doyle Hefner

  7. Vincent Piazza

    Earl Hefner

  8. Aaron Yoo

    Heston

  9. Utkarsh Ambudkar

    Ram

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Reviews

A review by Patrick E. Abe
Written by Patrick E. Abe on 2018-09-24
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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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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