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Rocket Science (2007)

6.2 | Jan 19, 2007 (US) | Comedy, Drama | 01:41

Life is easier done than said.

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.

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Cast

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Nicholas D'Agosto
Ben Wekselbaum
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Margo Martindale
Coach Lumbly
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Reece Thompson
Hal Hefner
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Anna Kendrick
Ginny Ryerson
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Jonah Hill
Junior Philosopher
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Denis O'Hare
Doyle Hefner
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Vincent Piazza
Earl Hefner
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Aaron Yoo
Heston
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Candace Hammer
Townsend Prep Debater

Reviews

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Patrick E. Abe
3 | Sep 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