When 15-year-old Hal Hefner (Reece Thompson) -- a New Jersey boy with a terrible stutter -- falls in love with the star of his high school debate squad (Anna Kendrick), he joins the team at his dream girl's urging. Next thing you know, young Hal finds himself caught up in the intense competition of debating. Jeffrey Blitz, who wrote and directed this charming tale, was awarded the Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance 2007.
A very entertaining movie. Painfully so. This movie exceeded my expectations dramatically by having it's own style and voice. So many of the "indie" movies that come out any more are clones of each other (wes anderson and such). This was sort of reminecant of rushmore but even more dry and very very awkward. One of my favorites of this year so far probably.
8.0/10
53/300 movies
4/30 books
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