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The Ringer
MEANRANK
56/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4613
- IMDb #4888
- Rotten Tomatoes #3472
- Metacritic #4117
- Letterboxd #4504
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4302
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2723
- Metacritic Critics #3786
- Metacritic Audience #4330
- Kinopoisk #4748
- AlloCiné #4383
- Trakt #4465
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 40, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 68. Critics average 43, everyone else 59.
See the most agreed on films →Pressured by a greedy uncle and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics and bring home the gold. But when Steve's fellow competitors get wise to the con, they inspire him to rise to the greatest challenge of all: becoming a better person.
Details
- Director
- Barry W. Blaustein
- Writer
- Ricky Blitt
- Released
- 23 December 2005
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Box office
- $40.4M
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