Rocket Science

Life is easier done than said.

Sinopse

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.

6.2
2007
Released
1h 41m

Nicholas D'Agosto

Margo Martindale

Reece Thompson

Anna Kendrick

Jonah Hill

Denis O'Hare

Vincent Piazza

Aaron Yoo

Utkarsh Ambudkar

Candace Hammer

Townsend Prep Debater

Lisbeth Bartlett

Juliet Hefner

Virginia House

English Teacher

Marilyn Yoblick

Plainsboro Lunch Lady

Maury Ginsberg

Emily Ginnona

Dionne Audain

Dan De Luca

Michael Kusnir

Steve Park

John Patrick Barry

Josh Kay

Jane Beard

Herb Merrick

Carol Florence

Betsy Hogg

Crystal Hamish-Steinberg

Brandon Thane Wilson

David DeBoy

Andrew Collie

Susan Duvall

Elisabeth Noone

Jeanette Brox

Townsend Prep Bad Girl

Roland Gomez

Luis

Lee Sellars

New Jersey Debate Official

Joel Marsh Garland

Pizza Server

Dan Cashman

Narrator (voice)

Status

Released

Original Language

Keywords

#stuttering
#debate team
#earnest
#hopeful
#underdogs and coming of age

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Reviews

@Otokichi786about 7 years ago

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