Rocket Science

2007

English

6.5

♡ 4

84%

underdogs and coming of age

Jeffrey Blitz Director

Anna Kendrick as Ginny Ryerson

Aaron Yoo as Heston

Jeanette Brox as Townsend Prep Bad Girl

Judy Jean Berns as Townsend Prep Receptionist

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.