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The Book of Henry
MEANRANK
57/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4461
- IMDb #3278
- Google retired #723
- Rotten Tomatoes #4146
- Metacritic #4918
- Letterboxd #4889
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5068
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3094
- Metacritic Critics #4726
- Metacritic Audience #4830
- Criticker #3694
- Kinopoisk #2093
- AlloCiné #1340
- Trakt #1342
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 21, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 26, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A single mother raising two sons is guided by her exceptionally gifted 11-year-old, Henry, who manages the family's finances. Henry becomes convinced that the girl next door is being abused by her stepfather, the town's police commissioner. He devises a meticulous plan to save her and, after a tragedy, his mother must find the courage to execute her son's dangerous scheme.
Details
- Director
- Colin Trevorrow
- Writer
- Gregg Hurwitz
- Released
- 16 June 2017
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $4.6M
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