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.| Status: | Released (2007-01-19) |
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| Awards: | 2 wins & 7 nominations |
| BoxOffice: | $714,943 |
| Screen: | Jeffrey Blitz |
| Productions: | RocketScience, W B I Films, Duly Noted, HBO Films |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 89576: Jeffrey Blitz - Writer - Writing
- 67584: Effie Brown - Producer - Production
- 27576: Jo Willems - Director of Photography - Camera
- 29941: Matthew Lessall - Casting - Production
- 275201: Rick Butler - Production Design - Art
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Reviews
Patrick E. Abe
Review text:
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 fo ....
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