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  • 2009
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary 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...

Directed By: Jonathan Glatzer

Written By: Robert C. Lawson, Jonathan Glatzer

  • 2009
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 44 m

What Goes Up

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
22
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Summary 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...

Directed By: Jonathan Glatzer

Written By: Robert C. Lawson, Jonathan Glatzer

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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20% Mixed
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80% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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80% Negative
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60
Director and co-writer Jonathan Glatzer handles his talented cast well, and the movie is dark, droll and sentimental in roughly the correct proportions. Worth a look.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
30
The thesis-driven story precludes much dramatic discovery, and the looming shuttle disaster only exacerbates the sense of heavy-handedness.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
30
Even when Mr. Coogan can't make his scenes work, his prickly presence keeps you watching, as does the eerie scenes of winter that Mr. Glatzer captures with the camera.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
20
A pointless and pretentious drama.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
10
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.
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0
Nothing in this movie is properly focused; everyone keeps talking about a character whom we never meet and does not matter; the tone keeps slipping around from indolent satire to thudding sincerity, and the Challenger shuttle disaster backdrop is queasy-making at best, offensive at worst.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
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This is rock bottom: I've seen a lot of terrible movies in the line of duty, but What Goes Up might be the only genuinely unreleasable one.
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Production Company Nasser Entertainment Group, Insight Film Studios, Station 3, Three Kings Productions
Release Date May 29, 2009
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline A Different Class of Misfits
Website http://www.whatgoesup-themovie.com/
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Awards

Buffalo Niagara Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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