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Drama
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Director:
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Jonathan Glatzer
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Olivia Thirlby,
Andrea Brooks,
Molly Price,
Ingrid Nilson,
Colleen Rennison,
Laura Konechny,
Max Hoffman,
Aubrey Mozino,
Steve Coogan,
Hilary Duff,
Josh Peck,
Molly Shannon,
Sarah Lind,
Andrew Wheeler,
Gabrielle Rose
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(5/10)132.5
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Plot Summary:
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What makes a protagonist? January, 1986. Campbell Babbitt is a news-hound on account of the Fresh York World, scribble literary works a series on a charwoman who turned the heartache of losing a son into civic acts. He falls in love with her, and when she commits suicide, he continues to write made-up stories about her. His editor sends him to Uncharted Hampshire to cover the Challenger retreat from the hamlet of schoolmaster Christa McAuliffe. The embark upon is postponed for a few days, giving Campbell nevertheless to cross to know a sort of maverick students whose own fellow killed himself... the day Campbell arrives in borough. He pieces the story together that led to the suicide, finds himself attracted to a student, and has to sort out of the closet his own negative cash flow death.
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What Goes Up
Brian LowryAs if journalism hasn't suffered enough of late, along comes What Goes Up, a pointless and pretentious drama that -- given its title and direct linkage to the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster -- nearly adds tasteless to its unflattering hat trick. In his feature debut, co-writer/director/producer/editor Jonathan Glatzer makes one unfortunate choice after another, taking a story that desperately wants to resonate as "important" and rendering it merely irritating. The cast's bold-faced names -- Steve Coogan, Hilary Duff, Juno's Olivia Thirlby -- seem unlikely to prevent a rough landing.
Glatzer (who wrote the screenplay with Robert Lawson, liberally adapted from the latter's play) states in the press notes that his goal was to "put heroism in America under the ...
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