Rocket Science

2007 "Life is easier done than said."
Rocket Science
6.5| 1h41m| R| en| More Info
Released: 19 January 2007 Released
Producted By: HBO Films
Country: United States of America
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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.

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Lele Since the beginning I feared that the screenplay had made Hal win the debate competition. But fortunately this is not a main stream silly movie: a stutterer cannot even be recruited for a debate team, thus Hal is out of the competition. Being out is fine, according to Ben. (BTW, I completely agree. I am not a competitor nor a supporter of some team)A possible answer is that non any question has an answer. Not any question makes sense. Acting and directing was fine, the script was even better. At the moment it's the only US high school movie where people are not bullied, there is no metal detector at the entrance and girls are not mean men eaters or silly cheerleaders.As a teacher I am glad that this movie deals with 'normal' teens even if when I was as old as Hal I was totally unaware of all the stuff he cares about!8/10
StupidHumanSuit Rocket Science is a bliss of love and awkwardness in the form of a film. The acting of the incredibly talented undiscovered cast is so wonderful that each character creates there own feel. Their own back story by saying nothing. Hal Hefner, a stuttering innocent living in a half-broken home; Ben Wexelbaum, a pressured prodigy trying to break free of the life that has had him lost for so long; and Ginny Ryerson, a using overachiever who lets nothing get in her way of getting what she wants. Each actor and actress is cast wonderfully and portrays their lives in such a way that it feels like an intricately true-to-life story. The wisdom of teenagers.Director Jeffrey Blitz blends and bends his direction to make it his own. The feel of a wondrous mixture of Wes and PT Anderson blended in with Jason Reitman, making a perfectly set and paced film that describes the pains of being a teenager. The social awkwardness, the heartfelt love and the loss of innocence. This film is absolutely astounding and is so amazingly well-done. About love and debates. Romance and plastic trophies. High school was never so bittersweet for these people. As Hal puts it at the end of the film, it shouldn't have to be...
Jackpollins A movie can get no more boring than this. It's a movie about a little, annoying twit with a stutter who gets to help a girl out on the debate team. The boy is Hal (Reece Thompson, just annoying as hell in this.) The girl is Ginny (Anna Kendrick, also pretty bad in this.) Together they form an annoying, stupid predictable relationship. The only mild laugh was from Jonah Hill as a student who sits next to Ben at the library. The movie is a mess from start to finish. It's another annoying, extremely predictable teen comedy in which a no one gets to be a someone. There is no real plot, the characters feel too forced, and scripted, and the jokes are just depressing. I can't really say I was disappointed by this film- I knew nothing of it, although I regularly do like D'Agosto. I feel like I should have never seen it. It's 98 minutes of my life I'll never get back. It's such an annoying film. The main problem with the film is that the film presents itself with a main character I just wanted to shut up. It's a movie of such tedium and annoyance that I have to say it's one of the worst film I've seen in a long, long time.
faustocausto Te acting is good i have to say... But my god, it is slow, and the script is so pretentious. And too too too much of the kid's speech problem come on. It made me want to slap him like 20 times!! Anyway what sort of film is it? It's pushing too much the witty comedy genre in vogue. Tired of this kind of stuff. Please make intelligent comedies but because they are intelligent. It seems that the point of this was to prove how many fancy words they can write. It is like the characters of Dawson's creek. Mixed with the wonder years, the girl name is even Ginny like Winnie. And what about the stereotypes like the funny intrusive Asian people and the pervert Indian.