Rotten
About as cruddy as a cruddy little indie can get, especially given a cast that should've known better.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Overview
Set in the mid-80s, when a reporter is sent to cover the Challenger Space Shuttle launch only to become mixed up in the lives of some local students.
Director and cast
- Jonathan Glatzer Director
- Steve Coogan as Campbell Babbitt
- Hilary Duff as Lucy Diamond
- Olivia Thirlby as Tess Sullivan
- Josh Peck as Jim Lement
- Molly Shannon as Penelope Little
- Brett Kelly as Blastoff! Chorus
- Molly Price as Donna Arbetter
- Max Hoffman as Fenster Itski
- Sarah Lind as Peggy Popoladopolous
- Laura Carswell as Lute Lement (as Laura Konechny)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
16%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The whole thing feels like a premeditated attempt at a Sundance sensation, a mix of cast members (and ideas) from Juno and Hamlet 2 spiced up with the now obligatory '80s references.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh
Director and co-writer Jonathan Glatzer handles his talented cast well, and the movie is dark, droll and sentimental in roughly the correct proportions.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Rotten
I never know quite what they were saying about heroism and then there are all these unanswered questions.
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies
Rotten
The film really struggles to find its voice and to find purpose and meaning.
Ben Lyons, At the Movies
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