Rocket Science

Rocket Science

6.2IMDb Score
Released:2007-01-19
Duration:101 min
Director:Jeffrey Blitz
Actors:Nicholas D'Agosto, Margo Martindale, Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Jonah Hill
Production:RocketScience, W B I Films, Duly Noted, HBO Films

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.

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