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Revenge of the Nerds
1984
· Movie
· 90 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3553
- IMDb #3208
- Rotten Tomatoes #2302
- Metacritic #3237
- Letterboxd #4271
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2767
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2321
- Metacritic Audience #1649
- Criticker #2434
- Kinopoisk #3956
- Trakt #2750
Every rating
41–74
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 41, highest is Google on 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →At Adams College, the jocks rule from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own frat to protect their outcast brothers, the nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.
Details
- Director
- Jeff Kanew
- Released
- 20 July 1984
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Box office
- $40.9M
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