What Goes Up
What Goes Up

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What makes a hero? January, 1986. Campbell Babbitt is a reporter for the New York World, writing a series on a woman who turned the grief of losing a son into civic acts. He falls in love with her, and when she commits suicide, he continues to write made-up stories about her. His editor sends him to New Hampshire to cover the Challenger flight from the town of teacher Christa McAuliffe. The launch is postponed for a few days, giving Campbell time to get to know a group of mis... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in What Goes Up:

Steve Coogan
Hilary Duff
Olivia Thirlby
Josh Peck
Molly Shannon
Brett Kelly

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What makes a hero? January, 1986. Campbell Babbitt is a reporter for the New York World, writing a series on a woman who turned the grief of losing a son into civic acts. He falls in love with her, and when she commits suicide, he continues to write made-up stories about her. His editor sends him to New Hampshire to cover the Challenger flight from the town of teacher Christa McAuliffe. The launch is postponed for a few days, giving Campbell time to get to know a group of misfit students whose own teacher killed himself the day Campbell arrives in town. He pieces the story together that led to the suicide, finds himself attracted to a student, and has to sort out his own loss.

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The A.V. Club - 6/10 by Noel MurrayWhat Goes Up has a one-of-a-kind character in Coogan, a cynic with a savior complex, who lies partly out of convenience, and partly because he knows--as Glatzer and Lawson know--that even a messy story can still inspire.
Salon.com - 6/10 by Andrew O'HehirDirector 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.
Chicago Reader - 3/10 by J.R. JonesThe thesis-driven story precludes much dramatic discovery, and the looming shuttle disaster only exacerbates the sense of heavy-handedness.
The New York Times - 3/10 by Manohla DargisEven 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.
New York Daily News - 2/10 by Elizabeth WeitzmanGlatzer's self-consciously quirky indie is misguided on every level.
The Hollywood Reporter - 1/10 by Ethan AlterA turgid mess of a film that has a lot of ideas on its mind, none of which prove very interesting or in fact coherent.
Los Angeles Times - 1/10 by Glenn WhippGlatzer 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.
Village Voice - 0/10 by Vadim RizovThis 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.
Chicago Tribune - 0/10 by Michael PhillipsNothing 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.
User Review - 10/10 by brandyhOk, it was weird and not the best movie, but I enjoyed it. I think Hilary Duff did very well, at least out of them all. But still, it was a movie i"d watch again.

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