Fresh
Writer-director Jeffrey Blitz brings wit and pathos to the story of a compulsive stutterer.
Jen Chaney, Washington Post
Rocket Science
Life is easier done than said.
2007 · 1h 41m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Jeffrey Blitz
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
84%
Tomatometer
Fresh
There's a lovely, fragile movie here; if only Blitz had had the faith to let it stand on its own two feet.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Fresh
Blitz continues to make a case for himself as a filmmaker with rich, realistic stories to tell.
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
Fresh
The merits of Rocket Science are endlessly debatable, and this is nothing to sneeze at.
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Quietly written and convincingly played, this coming-of-age story mines its rueful laughs from a thick vein of performance anxiety, in both senses of the term.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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