What Goes Up

What Goes Up

2009 · 104 min · EN · 5.1 (36 votes)
Dir. Jonathan Glatzer · Starring Steve Coogan, Hilary Duff, Olivia Thirlby, Josh Peck, Molly Shannon, Brett Kelly

“A Different Class of Misfits”

Drama

Set in the mid-80s, when a reporter is sent to cover the Challenger Space Shuttle launch only to become mixed up in the lives of some local students.

VIBE

A hazy, bittersweet look at adolescence against a backdrop of national tragedy. It captures the quiet desperation and fleeting joys of youth, set to a melancholic, '80s-tinged score. Feels like a faded photograph.

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