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Not much of a blast as Rocket fails to take off
ROCKET SCIENCE-DIRECTED BY JEFFERY BLITZ-CERTIFICATE 15
In his smart suit and bow tie, teenager Hal Hefner (Reece Daniel Thompson) makes an appealing contestant in his annual high school public speaking debate.
There’s one major problem: he is dogged by a bad stutter – the last thing he needs when he takes to the rostrum in front of hundreds of his fellow pupils – particularly that girl in the first row he is trying to impress, the highly articulate and dazzlingly confident Ginny (Anna Kendrick).
But she sees something in him that others overlook, among them Hal’s parents (Lisbeth Bartlett and Denis O’Hare) who are in the process of splitting up – which does nothing for his stress levels.
Can the boy overcome his stutter, control his voice and become a master of rhetoric?
This is optimistically described as “a wry comedy of adolescent angst”, but in truth the rocket never gets off the launching pad, and ends up as rather a damp squib. Rocket Science sets its sights on adolescent angst
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