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Rocket Science
Life is easier done than said.
Life is easier done than said.
Comedy, Drama - 2007
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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
Cast:
,
Margo Martindale
,
Jonah Hill
,
Nicholas D'Agosto
,
Reece Thompson
,
Aaron Yoo
,
Denis O'Hare
,
Anna Kendrick
,
Vincent Piazza

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Rated:
R
Runtime:
101 min
Release date:
19 Jan 2007
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 7 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Quietly written and convincingly played, this coming-of-age story mines its rueful laughs from a thick vein of performance anxiety, in both senses of the term.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
27 Aug 2007
fresh:
The merits of Rocket Science are endlessly debatable, and this is nothing to sneeze at.
– Carina Chocano,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Aug 2007
fresh:
Blitz continues to make a case for himself as a filmmaker with rich, realistic stories to tell.
– Christy Lemire,
Associated Press,
10 Sep 2007
fresh:
There's a lovely, fragile movie here; if only Blitz had had the faith to let it stand on its own two feet.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
28 Sep 2007
fresh:
Writer-director Jeffrey Blitz brings wit and pathos to the story of a compulsive stutterer.
– Jen Chaney,
Washington Post,
27 Feb 2008
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