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What Goes Up
Directed by
Jonathan Glatzer
R
2009
1h 44m
Drama
,
Comedy
5.3
14%
31%
5.1
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In the mid-1980s, an emotionally damaged New York reporter is sent to cover the Challenger Space Shuttle launch only to become mixed up in the lives of some dysfunctional local students.
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Cast of What Goes Up
Steve Coogan
Campbell Babbitt
Hilary Duff
Lucy Diamond / Songs
Olivia Thirlby
Tess Sullivan
Josh Peck
Jim Lement
Molly Shannon
Penelope Little
Brett Kelly
Blastoff! Chorus
Molly Price
Donna Arbetter
Max Hoffman
Fenster Itski
Sarah Lind
Peggy Popoladopolous
Laura Carswell
Lute Lement
Ingrid Nilson
Ann
Andrea Brooks
Sue
Andrew Wheeler
Principal Person
Gabrielle Rose
Mrs. Bridigan
Colleen Rennison
Sylvia
Aubrey Mozino
Blyth
Alexia Fast
Hannah (uncredited)
Kendra Waldman
Dusty Drake
Aaron Brooks
Ezra
Barry Greene
Sam Calalluci
What Goes Up Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
About as cruddy as a cruddy little indie can get, especially given a cast that should've known better.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Director and co-writer Jonathan Glatzer handles his talented cast well, and the movie is dark, droll and sentimental in roughly the correct proportions.
At the Movies
Ben Mankiewicz
I never know quite what they were saying about heroism and then there are all these unanswered questions.
At the Movies
Ben Lyons
The film really struggles to find its voice and to find purpose and meaning.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Has a charismatic performance by Steve Coogan, but that's not nearly enough to save it from drowning from its bland, awkward and lazy screenplay that fails to generate any real laughs or palpable dramatic tension.
Boxoffice Magazine
Wade Major
A rambling, self-serious and chronically unfocused look at '80s-era small town America and the socio-psychological anguish of disaffected youth.
Los Angeles Times
Glenn Whipp
[Director] Glatzer aims to wring laughter out of this desperation but succeeds only in producing a series of contrived characters and situations that make The Breakfast Club look like an unfiltered documentary.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
An unusually subdued Coogan does his best, but this is the kind of pretentious nonsense he usually satirizes.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Mr. Coogan doesn't seem altogether comfortable with his part, which, like the story, undergoes a number of unconvincing changes.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
Such a confused, convoluted, odd piece of cinema that I almost recommend seeing it just because it is so very unusual.
Filmcritic.com
Jesse Hassenger
a mess of a movie
AV Club
Noel Murray
While it's often as amateurish as it is assured, Glatzer and writer Robert Lawson want to convey so much that the sheer breadth of the movie means they hit a few of their targets.
Metromix.com
Matt Pais
Muted and never moving, instead finding no insight while dragging its feet along a variety of forced quirks.
Film Journal International
Ethan Alter
With its flat-footed script and poor production values, What Goes Up is a movie to be endured rather than enjoyed.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
In the current rut of similarly titled films with aspirations of altitude ("Up," "Away We Go"), "What Goes Up" is an especially loathsome case of entropy.
Village Voice
Vadim Rizov
I've seen a lot of terrible movies in the line of duty, but What Goes Up might be the only genuinely unreleasable one.
Observer
Rex Reed
Without a trace of tempo or one shred of narrative pacing, What Goes Up is not really a movie; it's the cheapest kind of amateurishness that looks like it was shot with a cell phone.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
What Goes Up's point that Americans create icons to fulfill their own screwy needs is made through contrived and nonsensical plotting.
Variety
Brian Lowry
Given its title and direct linkage to the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster -- nearly adds tasteless to its unflattering hat trick.
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