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The Art of Getting By
MEANRANK
56/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4622
- IMDb #3476
- Rotten Tomatoes #4611
- Metacritic #4208
- Letterboxd #4403
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5106
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4210
- Metacritic Critics #4485
- Metacritic Audience #3253
- Criticker #3118
- Kinopoisk #3064
- AlloCiné #2446
- Trakt #3841
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Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 20, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 28, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A chronically disaffected and fatalistic high school senior has skated by for years without doing any work. He forms a friendship with a popular, complicated girl who helps him open up. As graduation nears, his principal and his new muse force him to confront his fear of failure and his future.
Details
- Director
- Gavin Wiesen
- Writer
- Gavin Wiesen
- Released
- 17 June 2011
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Box office
- $1.4M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Sundance Film Festival 2011 | U.S. Dramatic | The Art of Getting By | Nominee |
| Teen Choice Awards 2011 | Choice Movie Actress: Romantic Comedy | Emma Roberts | Nominee |
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2 awards — The Art of Getting By
×| U.S. Dramatic | The Art of Getting By | Nominee |
| Choice Movie Actress: Romantic Comedy | Emma Roberts | Nominee |