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The New Guy
MEANRANK
47/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5499
- IMDb #4889
- Rotten Tomatoes #4731
- Metacritic #4724
- Letterboxd #4915
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5507
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3755
- Metacritic Critics #4928
- Metacritic Audience #3466
- Criticker #3847
- Kinopoisk #2630
- AlloCiné #4534
- Trakt #4076
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 7, highest is Kinopoisk on 70. Critics average 16, everyone else 55.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A extremely unpopular high school student gets himself expelled so he can reinvent himself at a new school. Taking advice from a flamboyant prison inmate, he creates a cool, rebellious new identity. He quickly becomes the most popular kid in school, but his new life is threatened when his past and his old school's students come back to expose him.
Details
- Director
- Ed Decter
- Writer
- David Kendall
- Released
- 10 May 2002
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $13.0M
- Box office
- $31.2M
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