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The Stepfather
2009
· Movie
· 101 min
F
MEANRANK
48/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5406
- IMDb #5182
- Google retired #3729
- Rotten Tomatoes #4944
- Metacritic #4718
- Letterboxd #5373
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5324
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4812
- Metacritic Critics #4675
- Metacritic Audience #4477
- Criticker #1576
- Douban #2536
- Kinopoisk #4471
- AlloCiné #4710
- Trakt #4588
Every rating
14–62
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 14, highest is Kinopoisk on 62. Critics average 24, everyone else 53.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young man returns home from military school to find his mother has a new fiancé. The man seems perfect—too perfect. He becomes suspicious of his soon-to-be stepfather and begins investigating his past, uncovering a pattern of families who were murdered and discovering the man is a serial killer searching for the perfect family.
Details
- Director
- Nelson McCormick
- Based on
- The Stepfather
- Studio
- Screen Gems, Maverick Films, Imprint Pictures
- Released
- 16 October 2009
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $31.2M
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