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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988
· Movie
· 110 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1197
- IMDb #1286
- Google retired #935
- Rotten Tomatoes #937
- Metacritic #1368
- Letterboxd #1340
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1177
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1252
- Metacritic Critics #1687
- Metacritic Audience #953
- Criticker #904
- Kinopoisk #314
- AlloCiné #2785
- Trakt #1078
Every rating
59–92
out of 100
Two con artists—one a refined gentleman, the other a small-time American hustler—operate on the French Riviera. They initially compete to swindle a young American heiress, but eventually agree to a winner-take-all bet: the first one to extract $50,000 from her gets to stay, the other must leave.
Details
- Director
- Frank Oz
- Writers
- Dale Launer, Paul Henning, Stanley Shapiro
- Studio
- Orion Pictures
- Released
- 14 December 1988
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French, German
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $6.5M
- Box office
- $42.0M
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Awards
1 win & 1 nomination total
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