First Hit: This is both a funny and sad film. The moments of truth can really be felt. The moments of laughter are honest as well. Although not great, I liked this film.
Reece Thompson is excellent as Hal the stuttering young man trying to make his way through high school, the debate team, and love. Each time I saw him get ready to speak I thought, this could be the moment he stops stuttering.
It is this hope that gives this film its legs. The hope that as he begins to live his life that the stuttering will end. His future was left to your imagination and you knew he would make it, somehow.
The film is cast with some great characters and each of them played their role well. From the brother who planned every slice of pie of his life, to his mother’s Korean boyfriend, all characters.
Overall: I liked the honesty and bizarreness of this film. First loves are so hard and can knock the wind out of you and yet they aren’t rocket science.