What Goes Up(2009)
A Different Class of Misfits
Set in the mid-80s, when a reporter is sent to cover the Challenger Space Shuttle launch only to become mixed up in the lives of some local students.
Movie: What Goes Up
Top 10 Billed Cast
Campbell Babbitt
Lucy Diamond
Tess Sullivan
Jim Lement
Penelope Little
Blastoff! Chorus
Donna Arbetter
Fenster Itski
Peggy Popoladopolous
Lute Lement
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