10 April 2012
Jeffrey Blitz, who made this film, was also responsible for the Academy Award-nominated Spellbound, so it is no surprise that he's made a film about adolescence that sees the world from their point of view, not ours.
His protagonist is Reece Daniel Thompson's stuttering Hal, who lives in suburban New Jersey and is smitten by the hyper-articulate Ginny (Anna Kendrick) who is everything he's not. Besides, his life is a shambles, with quarrelling parents, an obsessive compulsive brother and the inability to make sense to anyone except himself.
Blitz's highly original film gets as confused as Hal at times but remains a strikingly original riposte to the usual Hollywood coming-of-age epics.
Rocket Science
Cert: 15
