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The Boy Next Door
MEANRANK
40/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5786
- IMDb #5700
- Google retired #3674
- Rotten Tomatoes #4969
- Metacritic #4758
- Letterboxd #5795
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5368
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4798
- Metacritic Critics #4762
- Metacritic Audience #4362
- Criticker #4238
- Kinopoisk #5396
- AlloCiné #5290
- Trakt #5030
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 12, highest is Google on 60. Critics average 21, everyone else 44.
See the most agreed on films →A recently separated high school teacher has a brief affair with a charming, younger neighbor who has just moved in. When she ends the fling, his attraction turns into a dangerous and psychotic obsession. He begins to systematically infiltrate her life, threatening her career and her family, revealing a deeply disturbed and violent nature beneath his initially perfect facade.
Details
- Director
- Rob Cohen
- Writer
- Barbara Curry
- Released
- 23 January 2015
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $52.4M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →3 wins from 6 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2016 | Worst Actress | Jennifer Lopez | Nominee |
| People's Choice Award 2016 | Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress | Jennifer Lopez | Nominee |
| People's Choice Award 2016 | Favorite Thriller Movie | The Boy Next Door | Nominee |
| MTV Movie Award 2015 | Best Scared-As-Shit Performance | Jennifer Lopez | Winner |
| Premios Juventud 2015 | Actriz que Se Roba La Pantalla (Favorite Actress) | Jennifer Lopez | Winner |
| Premios Juventud 2015 | Pantalla Más Padre (Favorite Movie) | Jennifer Lopez, Jason Blum | Winner |
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6 awards — The Boy Next Door
×| Actriz que Se Roba La Pantalla (Favorite Actress) | Jennifer Lopez | Winner |
| Pantalla Más Padre (Favorite Movie) | Jennifer Lopez, Jason Blum | Winner |
| Best Scared-As-Shit Performance | Jennifer Lopez | Winner |
| Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress | Jennifer Lopez | Nominee |
| Favorite Thriller Movie | The Boy Next Door | Nominee |
| Worst Actress | Jennifer Lopez | Nominee |