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The Spellers: Harry Altman, Ted Brigham, Neil Kadakia, Emily Stagg, Angela Arenivar, April Degideo, Nupur Lala, Ashley White It is useful to be a good speller, up to a point. After that point, you re just showing off. The eight contestants in Spellbound, who have come from all over the country to compete in the 1999 National Spelling Bee, are never likely to need words such as opsimath in their daily rounds, although logorrhea might come in handy. As we watch them drilling with flashcards and worksheets, we hope they will win, but we re not sure what good it will do them. ....
Now streaming on: The high school hero of Rocket Science stutters, but all high school kids stutter. It s just that most of them don t do it with their voices. They stutter in the way they don t know how to present themselves, what to say next, how to talk their way out of embarrassment, when to make an approach to someone they have a crush on or how to perform in class when everybody s looking at them. It s just that Hal Hefner (Reece Daniel Thompson) does it out loud. That s why he seems to be an odd choice when Ginny Ryerson (Anna Kendrick) talks him into joining the school debate team. The movie opens when she loses her regular debate partner, Ben Wekselbaum (Nicholas D Agosto). His meltdown is spectacular. In the middle of a debate, he is effortlessly speeding along at a zillion words a second (I learn debaters call this spreading ) when suddenly he freezes. His mind goes blank and he can t think of a single thing to say. Who can t identify with that? ....