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Dear Evan Hansen
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4019
- IMDb #4483
- Google retired #2315
- Rotten Tomatoes #3256
- Metacritic #4391
- Letterboxd #5510
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4777
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #844
- Metacritic Critics #4300
- Metacritic Audience #4188
- Kinopoisk #3381
- AlloCiné #3044
- Trakt #3845
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 28, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 88. Critics average 34, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A high school student with severe social anxiety is mistaken for the best friend of a classmate who has died by suicide. He is embraced by the grieving family, who find comfort in the fabricated stories he tells about their son. This well-intentioned lie spirals out of control, giving him the connection he has always craved but forcing him to confront the devastating consequences of his deception.
Details
- Director
- Stephen Chbosky
- Writer
- Steven Levenson
- Based on
- a work by Steven Levenson
- Released
- 24 September 2021
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $27.5M
- Box office
- $19.1M
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