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Sorry to Bother You
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2135
- IMDb #2421
- Google retired #3207
- Rotten Tomatoes #1495
- Metacritic #1164
- Letterboxd #1364
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #589
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2596
- Metacritic Critics #783
- Metacritic Audience #2092
- Criticker #1234
- Douban #1686
- Kinopoisk #4208
- AlloCiné #2717
- Trakt #2639
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 55, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 93. Critics average 86, everyone else 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A black telemarketer in Oakland discovers a magical key to professional success: using his "white voice" on calls. His newfound success propels him up the corporate ladder into a world of immense wealth and bizarre morality. He is forced to choose between profiting from a system that exploits the poor or confronting the sinister forces behind his company's operations.
Details
- Director
- Boots Riley
- Writer
- Boots Riley
- Studio
- Cinereach, Significant Productions, MACRO, MNM Creative
- Released
- 6 July 2018
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.2M
- Box office
- $18.2M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 7 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 7 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Independent Spirit Awards 2019 | Best First Feature | Boots Riley, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Jonathan Duffy, Charles D. King, George Rush, Forest Whitaker and Kelly Williams | Winner |
| Directors Guild of America Awards 2019 | Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film | Boots Riley | Nominee |
| Independent Spirit Awards 2019 | Best Screenplay | Boots Riley | Nominee |
| National Board of Review 2019 | Top Ten Independent Films | Sorry to Bother You | Winner |
| Gotham Awards 2018 | Audience Award | Sorry to Bother You | Nominee |
| Gotham Awards 2018 | Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director | Boots Riley | Nominee |
| Gotham Awards 2018 | Best Actor | LaKeith Stanfield | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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7 awards — Sorry to Bother You
×| Best First Feature | Boots Riley, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Jonathan Duffy, Charles D. King, George Rush, Forest Whitaker and Kelly Williams | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | Boots Riley | Nominee |
| Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film | Boots Riley | Nominee |
| Top Ten Independent Films | Sorry to Bother You | Winner |
| Audience Award | Sorry to Bother You | Nominee |
| Best Actor | LaKeith Stanfield | Nominee |
| Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director | Boots Riley | Nominee |