Debating Robert Lee is a 2004 independent film

Independent film

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, directed by Dan Polier and written by Matthew Klein

Matthew Klein

Matthew Klein was the speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives during the 2005 legislative session. He was succeeded as speaker by Rep. Jeff Delzer. Klein is an engineering consultant by trade. He graduated from North Dakota State University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and...

 with Polier. It is centered on a group of dysfunctional teens—the debate team at a high school in idyllic Palos Verdes

Palos Verdes

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, California

California

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. Most students on the team are taking debate as an elective needed to graduate, but Robert Lee (played by Dale Midkiff

Dale Midkiff

Dale Alan Midkiff is an American actor.-Early life:Midkiff was born in Chance, Maryland, the son of Joyce and Thomas Midkiff. He attended Edgewood High School near Baltimore. His first acting experience came playing Jack in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk for a local children's theater. His...

), one of the best debate teachers in the country, believes that they can aspire to more. The movie also stars Brad Bufanda

Brad Bufanda

Brad Bufanda is an American actor. He is best known for the role of Larry Wilcox in the TV series Co-Ed Confidential.-Personal life:...

, Kaley Cuoco

Kaley Cuoco

Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American film and television actress. She first came to attention for her role as Bridget Hennessy on the Emmy Award-winning sitcom 8 Simple Rules. She later starred as Billie Jenkins on the final season of the supernatural drama series Charmed...

, Danielle Harris

Danielle Harris

Danielle Andrea Harris is an American film and television actress, best known as a scream queen for her roles in several horror films, four of them in the Halloween series: in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers as Jamie Lloyd and in Halloween and...

, Edwin Hodge

Edwin Hodge

Edwin Hodge is an American actor. Hodge is the older brother of actor Aldis Hodge.-Biography:Edwin Martel Basil Hodge was born on January 26, 1985 in Jacksonville, North Carolina to Aldis Hodge and Yolette Evangeline Richardson, but he was raised in New York. Hodge's mother is from the state of...

, Billy Kay

Billy Kay (actor)

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, Brian Kerwin

Brian Kerwin

Brian Kerwin is an American actor.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kerwin won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily. His Broadway theatre credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005...

, Daniel Letterle

Daniel Letterle

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, Leonardo Nam

Leonardo Nam

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, and Rachel Nichols

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.

Cast

• Daniel Letterle
  Daniel Letterle
  Daniel Letterle is an American actor who portrayed the lead roles in The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green and Camp.- Biography :...
  
   - Matt Mann
• Dale Midkiff
  Dale Midkiff
  Dale Alan Midkiff is an American actor.-Early life:Midkiff was born in Chance, Maryland, the son of Joyce and Thomas Midkiff. He attended Edgewood High School near Baltimore. His first acting experience came playing Jack in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk for a local children's theater. His...
  
   - Robert Lee
• Kaley Cuoco
  Kaley Cuoco
  Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American film and television actress. She first came to attention for her role as Bridget Hennessy on the Emmy Award-winning sitcom 8 Simple Rules. She later starred as Billie Jenkins on the final season of the supernatural drama series Charmed...
  
   - Maralee Rodgers
• Danielle Harris
  Danielle Harris
  Danielle Andrea Harris is an American film and television actress, best known as a scream queen for her roles in several horror films, four of them in the Halloween series: in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers as Jamie Lloyd and in Halloween and...
  
   - Liz Bronner
• Billy Kay
  Billy Kay (actor)
  William Nathan "Billy" Kay is an American film and television actor. He played Lance Norway in 2003's The Battle of Shaker Heights, an independent film made following the Project Greenlight contest...
  
   - David Russell
• Edwin Hodge
  Edwin Hodge
  Edwin Hodge is an American actor. Hodge is the older brother of actor Aldis Hodge.-Biography:Edwin Martel Basil Hodge was born on January 26, 1985 in Jacksonville, North Carolina to Aldis Hodge and Yolette Evangeline Richardson, but he was raised in New York. Hodge's mother is from the state of...
  
   - Elliot Davis
• Rachel Nichols
  Rachel Nichols (actress)
  Rachel Emily Nichols is an American actress and model. Nichols began modeling while attending Columbia University in New York City in the late 1990s...
  
   - Trilby Moffat
• Brad Bufanda
  Brad Bufanda
  Brad Bufanda is an American actor. He is best known for the role of Larry Wilcox in the TV series Co-Ed Confidential.-Personal life:...
  
   - Richard Alanzo
• Luke Edwards
  Luke Edwards
  Lucas Daniel "Luke" Edwards is an American actor. He began taking acting lessons for fun on his mother's suggestion and landed his first television role in 1988 on an ABC Afterschool Special episode...
  
   - Michael Holland
• Leonardo Nam
  Leonardo Nam
  Leonardo Nam is an Argentine-born Australian actor of Korean descent.-Early life:Nam was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the age of 6, he moved to Sydney, Australia. Nam attended Sydney Technical High School and studied architecture at the University of New South Wales. Nam left Sydney to...
  
   - Jordan Kramer
• Brian Kerwin
  Brian Kerwin
  Brian Kerwin is an American actor.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kerwin won the Theatre World Award in 1988 for the off-Broadway play Emily. His Broadway theatre credits include the 1997 revival of The Little Foxes and the Elaine May comedy After the Night and the Music in 2005...
  
   - Gary Mann
• A Martinez
  A Martinez
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   - Mr. Alonzo
• Beau Bridges
  Beau Bridges
  Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III is an American actor and director.- Early life :Bridges was born in Los Angeles, the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his college sweetheart, Dorothy Bridges . He was nicknamed "Beau" by his mother and father after Ashley Wilkes's son in Gone with the Wind, the book...
  
   - Mr. Lee
• Matthew Klein - Coach Schuman
• Penn Badgley
  Penn Badgley
  Penn Dayton Badgley is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Dan Humphrey on the CW television series Gossip Girl. He has also starred in the movies John Tucker Must Die, The Stepfather, and Easy A....
  
  - Debator