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The Boss
MEANRANK
49/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5372
- IMDb #5373
- Google retired #3143
- Rotten Tomatoes #4776
- Metacritic #4736
- Letterboxd #5228
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5060
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4666
- Metacritic Critics #4236
- Metacritic Audience #4907
- Kinopoisk #5353
- AlloCiné #5079
- Trakt #3993
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 21, highest is Google on 74. Critics average 30, everyone else 53.
See the most agreed on films →A titan of industry is sent to prison for insider trading. After her release, she is broke, homeless, and stripped of her fortune. Forced to rebuild her life from scratch, she manipulates her former assistant into helping her start a new business venture: a brownie troop for young girls, which she turns into a cutthroat, lucrative enterprise.
Details
- Director
- Ben Falcone
- Writers
- Ben Falcone, Melissa McCarthy, Steve Mallory
- Released
- 7 April 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $29.0M
- Box office
- $78.8M
- Awards
- 1 win, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →1 win from 5 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2016 | Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Melissa McCarthy | Nominee |
| Golden Trailer Awards 2016 | Best Comedy Poster | The Boss | Nominee |
| People's Choice Awards 2016 | Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Melissa McCarthy | Winner |
| People's Choice Awards 2016 | Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Kristen Bell | Nominee |
| Teen Choice Awards 2016 | Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | Melissa McCarthy | Nominee |
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5 awards — The Boss
×| Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Melissa McCarthy | Winner |
| Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Kristen Bell | Nominee |
| Actress Most in Need of a New Agent | Melissa McCarthy | Nominee |
| Best Comedy Poster | The Boss | Nominee |
| Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | Melissa McCarthy | Nominee |