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Night School
MEANRANK
50/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5233
- IMDb #5163
- Google retired #2122
- Rotten Tomatoes #4656
- Metacritic #4551
- Letterboxd #5475
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4838
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4679
- Metacritic Critics #4032
- Metacritic Audience #4785
- Kinopoisk #5085
- AlloCiné #4768
- Trakt #3741
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 27, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 35, everyone else 54.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A charismatic but unmotivated barbecue grill salesman’s life is upended when a fire destroys his workplace and his chance at a promotion. To secure a better job, he must finally earn his GED diploma. He joins a night school class filled with quirky fellow students, but his efforts are constantly challenged by his arrogant and competitive high school nemesis who is now the teacher.
Details
- Director
- Malcolm D. Lee
- Writers
- Harry Ratchford, Joey Wells, John Hamburg, Kevin Hart, Matthew Kellard
- Released
- 27 September 2018
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $29.0M
- Box office
- $33.2M
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