What Goes Up (2009)

Directors

Jonathan Glatzer

Cast

Hilary Duff, Steve Coogan, Olivia Thirlby, Josh Peck, Molly Shannon, Molly Price, Max Hoffman, Sarah Lind, Laura Carswell, Ingrid Nilson, Andrea Brooks, Andrew Wheeler, Gabrielle Rose, Colleen Rennison, Aubrey Mozino, Aaron Brooks, Barry Greene, Katie Messina, Alana Husband, Kendra Sue Waldman

The story

Upon arriving in Concord, New Hampshire in January 1986 to cover the hometown hooplah for the looming Space Shuttle Challenger launch, with local teacher Christa McAuliffe on the mission's crew, reporter Campbell Babbitt decides to call an old college friend, only to discover an apparent suicide. Babbitt, who has his own ethical baggage, gravitates toward his friend's high-school students in hopes of finding an unsung hero story about a teacher who made a permanent impact on the social misfits of the school. Instead, he discovers a group of dysfunctional students, outcasts led by narcissistic seductress Lucy, repressed voyeur Jim, and…

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