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Role Models
2008
· Movie
· 99 min
C
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3012
- IMDb #2588
- Rotten Tomatoes #1996
- Metacritic #2197
- Letterboxd #3376
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2253
+5 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2207
- Metacritic Critics #2346
- Metacritic Audience #1941
- Criticker #1989
- AlloCiné #4087
Every rating
46–80
out of 100
Two energy drink salesmen are sentenced to community service after a reckless incident. They are forced to serve as mentors in a Big Brother program. One is paired with a fantasy-obsessed teenager, the other with a foul-mouthed young boy, and their attempts to connect with them are disastrous at first.
Details
- Director
- David Wain
- Writers
- David Wain, Ken Marino, Paul Rudd, Timothy Dowling, William Blake Herron
- Released
- 7 November 2008
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $28.0M
- Box office
- $92.4M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 4 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2009 | Best Comedy | Nominee | |
| MTV Movie & TV Awards 2009 | Best Breakthrough Performance – Male | Nominee | |
| Teen Choice Awards 2009 | Choice Movie – Bromantic Comedy | Nominee | |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards 2008 | Best Comedy | Nominee |
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards
1 nomination
| Best Comedy | Nominee |
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1 nomination
| Best Breakthrough Performance – Male | Nominee |
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
1 nomination
| Best Comedy | Nominee |
Teen Choice Awards
1 nomination
| Choice Movie – Bromantic Comedy | Nominee |