Quirky teen comedy drama starring Reece Thompson as Hal Hefner, an average sophomore at Plainsboro High School in New Jersey. As well as suffering the daily indignities of a typical teenager, Hal is further socially debilitated by his terrible stutter. However, when he falls in love with the star of the debating society, Ginny Ryerson (Anna Kendrick), he soon finds himself immersed in her ultra-competitive world of high school debating, with its players, its politics and its own set of rules.