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Idle Hands
1999
· Movie
· 92 min
D
MEANRANK
55/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4713
- IMDb #3986
- Rotten Tomatoes #4392
- Metacritic #4561
- Letterboxd #3167
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5191
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3508
- Metacritic Critics #4737
- Metacritic Audience #3750
- Criticker #2997
- Kinopoisk #3858
- AlloCiné #4716
- Trakt #4071
Every rating
18–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 18, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 24, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Anton is a cheerful but exceedingly non-ambitious 17-year-old stoner who lives to stay buzzed, watch TV, and moon over Molly, the beautiful girl who lives next door. However, it turns out that the old cliché about idle hands being the devil's playground has a kernel of truth after all.
Details
- Director
- Rodman Flender
- Writers
- Ron Milbauer, Terri Hughes
- Released
- 30 April 1999
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $4.2M
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