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The Boy
2016
· Movie
· 98 min
D
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4874
- IMDb #4528
- Google retired #2787
- Rotten Tomatoes #4557
- Metacritic #4133
- Letterboxd #5020
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4687
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4667
- Metacritic Critics #4153
- Metacritic Audience #3930
- Douban #2389
- Kinopoisk #4753
- AlloCiné #3622
- Trakt #4317
Every rating
31–78
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 31, highest is Google on 78. Critics average 36, everyone else 57.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An American nanny is hired to care for the young son of a wealthy elderly couple in a remote English village. She is shocked to discover their "son" is actually a life-sized porcelain doll. They give her a strict set of rules to follow, but when she breaks them, disturbing and inexplicable events begin to occur.
Details
- Director
- William Brent Bell
- Writer
- Stacey Menear
- Released
- 22 January 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $73.9M
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