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Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Release Date: TBA 2009
Limited release

May 31, 2007
Half Nelson team gear up for Physics

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, who collaborated on the well-received indie film Half Nelson, will adapt the Marisha Pessl novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Fleck will also direct the film for Miramax. The story follows a teenager who has spent each of her high school years moving around with her eccentric father, who is a teacher. She is finally anticipating normalcy at a North Carolina high school, and while there she becomes involved with some of the "higher class" kids known as Bluebloods. Together, the group becomes involved in a mystery surrounding the death of a favorite teacher.
Source: Variety

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