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Summary
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C.
Good for
- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Kids
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics a little warmer than audiences (+6)
Critics 80Audiences 74GoodWatch 77
Metascore80
IMDb7.6
User score7.2
Running time
1 h 37 min
A typical length for documentaries
typical 9697Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country, rent or buy in 4 more
Released
2002
November 13, 2002
24 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Jeffrey Blitz Director, Screenplay, Producer, Camera Operator
Production · 4
- Sean Welch Producer, Sound Recordist
- David Magdael Publicist
- Winston Emano Publicist
- Sally Steele Publicist
Camera · 2
- Mac Carter Additional Camera
- Rob Lyall Additional Camera
Editing · 2
- Yana Gorskaya Editor
- Chris Perkel Editorial Services
Sound · 3
- Daniel Hulsizer Music
- Peter Brown Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Joe Dzuban Sound Effects Editor
Costume & Make-Up · 1
- Nancy Lowry Set Dressing Artist
Other crew · 2
- Breck Eisner Thanks
- Andy Blitz Other
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