"From the award-winning director of SPELLBOUND
comes the story of hal Hefner, a misfit teenager
with a doomed crush, a beat-up suitcase and the
whole world resting on the tip of his tongue...
ROCKET SCIENCE follows the life of fifteen year-
old Hal, an awkward kid with a stutter who wants
to rise from obscurity and become an unlikely hero
of his high school. Hal sees his chance when Ginny
Ryerson - the ambitious, fast-talking star of the
debate team - convinces him that he's got the raw
talent to succeed at public speaking. Falling
madly in love and discovering new confidence, Hal
sets out on an improbable journey through the
pitfalls and perils of the New Jersey suburbs.
Deadpan comic and achingly real, ROCKET SCIENCE is
aa metaphor for the insecurity and confusion felt
by every sensitive soul trapped inside the bubble
of adolescence. (The New York Times)"