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Friend Request
2016
· Movie
· 92 min
F
MEANRANK
42/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5727
- IMDb #5526
- Google retired #3215
- Rotten Tomatoes #4996
- Metacritic #4948
- Letterboxd #5712
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5219
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5001
- Metacritic Critics #4742
- Metacritic Audience #4883
- Criticker #4197
- Kinopoisk #5374
- AlloCiné #5043
- Trakt #4794
Every rating
17–72
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 17, highest is Google on 72. Critics average 24, everyone else 46.
See the most agreed on films →A popular college student accepts a online friend request from a lonely, socially isolated classmate. When she later unfriends the girl out of guilt, the rejected student commits suicide. The popular girl soon finds herself the target of a vengeful supernatural force that uses social media to systematically destroy her life.
Details
- Director
- Simon Verhoeven
- Writers
- Matthew Ballen, Philip Koch, Simon Verhoeven
- Released
- 7 January 2016
- Country
- Germany, South Africa
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $9.9M
- Box office
- $11.0M
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