"Rocket Science" Movie Features Debate Setting

From http://www.fangoria.com/fearful_feature.php?id=4662

I have no idea what ROCKET SCIENCE, my first movie at the Hall on Thursday, is doing in Fantasia, as this oddball youth comedy has to do with high-school debating, not space travel. But I’m very glad it’s here; this is, to quote a couple of fellow Fantasians, the sort of quietly eccentric and exceedingly charming film Wes Anderson used to make before he lost his bearings in recent years. Young female lead Anna Kendrick previously stood out in the ensemble of CAMP, and she’s marvelous here as Ginny, a driven, fast-talking student who recruits socially awkward stutterer Hal Hefner (Reece Daniel Thompson) to partner with her on the debate team. No one like Ginny has even paid this kind of attention to Hal before, and he inevitably falls for her, with ramifications that neither he nor the audience can see coming.

The terrific and distinctive lead performances by Thompson and Kendrick are surrounded by a wealth of distinctive supporting characters and details, among them some of the more unique instrumental song covers you’ll ever here. Writer/director Jeremy Blitz previously explored the precocious intellectualism of youth in his hit documentary SPELLBOUND, and here he draws on his own teen past—as a debater and stutterer—to create a world and a scenario that seem wholly fresh. Check ROCKET SCIENCE out when Picturehouse opens it theatrically next month. The feature is preceded by LA MINE, a blackly amusing short by French filmmaker Sébastien Le Gallo about a young man who gets an unexpected and potentially deadly surprise when he goes for a walk in the woods.