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The Misfortunates
MEANRANK
71/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 54, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 77. Critics average 54, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?
Details
- Director
- Felix van Groeningen
- Based on
- a work by Dimitri Verhulst
- Studio
- Menuet
- Released
- 7 October 2009
- Country
- Belgium, Netherlands
- Language
- Dutch
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →0 wins from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 2010 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Belgium | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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×| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Belgium | Nominee |