Watch: Speech & Debate 2017 123movies, Full Movie Online – Frustrated by the hypocrisy they see in their parents, teachers, and the entire school board, an unlikely trio set out to find a common truth and make their voices heard as they revive a defunct school club and take on the world..
Plot: Frustrated by the hypocrisy they see in their parents, teachers, and the entire school board, an unlikely trio set out to find a common truth and make their voices heard as they revive a defunct school club and take on the world.
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Occasionally Entertaining, But Empty Teen Film
Speech & Debate seems like it wants to go for the jugular and say something profound about small town teen life, but every time it gets close, it chickens out and settles for dull clichés.The cast certainly seems game. Our three teen leads are appealing, charming, and a joy to watch, but the pedestrian script doesn’t do them any favors. It wants to have something to say about gay issues, teen pregnancy, pedophilia, religion, detached parents, and overly moralistic school boards, but it never digs into one of them below the surface and the whole film becomes sort of like a light episode of Glee.
This is not to say that Speech & Debate is without amusing moments, but the laughs aren’t big enough to function as a comedy and the drama isn’t real or powerful enough to function as a drama. Speech & Debate just sort of…is. In its goal to be inoffensive, light, and watchable for all audiences, it no longer has any bite.
This is a Netflix pick at best.
Thinking about: Liam James
Nerds, come get your jush!!!!!! High school is such a strange institution where adults are responsible for nurturing your dreams and yet gatekeep them infuriatingly. This trio of an awkward journalism guy, a bone-deep theatre kid, and a newcomer queer are told NOPE at every turn but they never stop never stopping!!!!! If you were any of those things yourself in high school, you gotta watch this. It pokes at your soul and reminds you to keep dancing until your dreams materialize. The dialogue is witty, the comedy is sharp, and Kal Penn wears a suit! It’s a big fat slice of nerd life and they just get know-it-all high school extracurricular culture so so right.Don’t get me started on the cameos. I have no idea how this movie gave us Lin-Manuel Miranda on a VHS dressed as a genie and didn’t get more attention. That’s like gotta be lifted from a fanfic somewhere. And that wasn’t even my favorite cameo!
(End of movie spoiler) Kristin mfing Chenoweth laid down a track for this!!!!!!!! Nurse!!!!!!!!!!!!
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Dan Harris
Writer Stephen Karam
Actors Jeremy Rowley, Jerry Leggio, Wendi McLendon-Covey
Country United States
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Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa
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Negative Format Digital
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