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Trial and Error
MEANRANK
51/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 30, highest is Kinopoisk on 63.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →When lawyer Charlie is sent to a small Nevada town to file a continuance request for a client, his actor friend Richard turns up to throw a surprise bachelor party celebrating his upcoming marriage to the boss's daughter. When Charlie is too hung-over to make it to court for the hearing, Richard fills in, inadvertently committing felony fraud, and Charlie is left with no choice but to coach the clueless Richard through the whole trial.
Details
- Director
- Jonathan Lynn
- Writers
- Cliff Gardner, Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein
- Released
- 30 May 1997
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $14.6M
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