Rocket Science (2007)
1h 41m | PG-13
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
Studio: RocketScience
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Video: 720p
Cast
Nicholas D'Agosto
as Ben Wekselbaum
Margo Martindale
as Coach Lumbly
Reece Thompson
as Hal Hefner
Anna Kendrick
as Ginny Ryerson
Jonah Hill
as Junior Philosopher
Denis O'Hare
as Doyle Hefner
Reviews
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