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Jun 16, 2014 · Our review: Parents say: Not yet rated Rate movie. Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. With a strong cast and an ambitious concept, WHAT GOES UP is a movie you want to like. Sadly, it never takes flight, hunkered down by a bloated, overwrought storyline. It aims for edge but comes across as much too earnest, and not in any endearing way.
- Sony Pictures
- Hilary Duff, Steve Coogan
An emotionally damaged New York reporter (Steve Coogan) covers the Challenger launch, and afterward, he becomes close to a group of students whose teacher was killed in the explosion. As the kids ...
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- Jonathan Glatzer
- R
- Steve Coogan
What Goes Up is a 2009 American comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Glatzer and starring Hilary Duff, Steve Coogan, Josh Peck, Olivia Thirlby, and Molly Shannon. It was co-written by Glatzer and Robert Lawson and distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment .
May 29, 2009 · It is 1986. An emotionally damaged New York reporter is sent to cover the hometown hoopla for a local hero. But rather than pursue his assignment, which leaves him cold, he follows a group of disaffected students, whose own hero - their beloved, unconventional teacher has just died under a cloud of scandal. Their passionate and, at times, ludicrous expressions of grief attract the reporter. He ...
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- Jonathan Glatzer
- R
- Steve Coogan
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'What Goes Up' is set around the Challenger Space Shuttle Tragedy time frame in 1986, with the shuttle mishap as a backdrop. What the film actually revolves around, is a group of teenage rejects or in the words of the writer – 'The Unteachables' and Campbell Babbit (played by British comic Steve Coogan), a journalist, leaving behind his misfortunes in New York to arrive at the town of New ...
What Goes Up is an earnest morality tale. It's very uneven, but it also seems sincere. Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/5 | Jun 6, 2009
May 28, 2009 · Let’s start with the writer-director’s paralleling of the historical tragedy-to-be with various personal calamities: the journalist harbors a damning secret, a small town’s beloved teacher ...
