Hal Hefner (Reece Thompson) is an average sophomore at Plainsboro High School in New Jersey. He stutters and suffers the daily indignities of a typical teenager. With only a little encouragement, Hal falls in love with the star of the debate team, Ginny Ryerson (Anna Kendrick), and finds himself suddenly immersed in her ultra competitive world of high-school debating, with its players, its politics and its own set of rules.
Production B&W Films; Duly Noted; HBO Films; Rocket Science Inc.;
Cast Names Nicholas D'Agosto; Anna Kendrick; Utkarsh Ambudkar; Candace Scholz; Margo Martindale; Reece Thompson; Vincent Piazza; Denis O'Hare; Lisbeth Bartlett; Aaron Yoo; Virginia Frank; Marilyn Yoblick; Maury Ginsberg; Emily Ginnona; Dionne Audain; Dan DeLuca; Michael Kusnir; Steve Park; John Patrick Barry; Josh Kay; Jane Beard; Herb Merrick; Carol Florence; Jonah Hill; Betsy Hogg; Brandon Thane Wilson; Zack Arrington; Jaime Chicas; Katrina Hargrave; Erin Loube; Natasha Sattler; Will Shaw; Jeffrey Wei; David DeBoy; Andrew Collie; Huong D. Nguyen; Katherine Ross Wolfe; Susan Duvall; Elisabeth Noone; Noah Mazaika;
Release Date 2007-01-19 (Sundance Film Festival) 2007-03-03 (US Comedy Arts Festival Aspen) 2007-04-07 (Philadelphia International Film Festival) 2007-04-27 (Atlanta Film and Video Festival) 2007-05-01 (San Francisco International Film Festival) 2007-06-17 (Maui Film Festival) 2007-08-10 (limited)
Genres Comedy; Drama;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for some sexual content and language.