MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Rocket Science
Hal Hefner is an average sophomore at Plainsboro High School in New Jersey. He stutters and suffers the daily indignities of a typical teenager. With only a little encouragement, Hal falls in love with the star of the debate team, Ginny Ryerson, and finds himself suddenly immersed in her ultra competitive world of high-school debating, with its players, its politics and its own set of rules.
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MPAA rating:
R
for some sexual content and language
Cast:
Utkarsh Ambudkar; Aaron Yoo; Vincent Piazza; Nicholas D'Agosto; Anna Kendrick; Dionne Audain; Andrew Collie; Lisbeth Bartlett; John Patrick Barry; Reece Thompson
Directed by:
Jeff Blitz
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Genre:
Comedy; Romance Running time:
01:38
Release date:
2007
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