What Goes Up

What Goes Up (2009)

  • 16% of critics liked it
    (32 reviews)

  • 33% of users liked it
    (11,835 ratings)

A period comedy set in the 1980s, Jonathan Glatzer's What Goes Up tells the poignant story of a morally challenged New York reporter who connects with a group of high school outcasts while in New Hampshire covering the story of Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian astronaut. Arriving in McAullife's… More

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R, 1 hr. 55 min.
Directed By
Jonathan Glatzer
Written By
Jonathan Glatzer, Robert Lawson
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
May 29, 2009 Wide
On DVD
Jun 16, 2009
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Critic Reviews

  • Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

    About as cruddy as a cruddy little indie can get, especially given a cast that should've known better.

  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

    The whole thing feels like a premeditated attempt at a Sundance sensation, a mix of cast members (and ideas) from Juno and Hamlet 2 spiced up with the now obligatory '80s references.

  • Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

    Director and co-writer Jonathan Glatzer handles his talented cast well, and the movie is dark, droll and sentimental in roughly the correct proportions.

  • Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies

    I never know quite what they were saying about heroism and then there are all these unanswered questions.

  • Ben Lyons, At the Movies

    The film really struggles to find its voice and to find purpose and meaning.

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  • Curtis L


    Tries pretty hard to be weird, but a lot of the characters seemed pretty pointless and their actions unmerrited.

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