Good Burger (1997)

Directed by

Brian Robbins

Genre

comedy film, buddy film, teen film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 583 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school student takes a summer job at a fast food restaurant after crashing his teacher's car. He teams up with a dimwitted coworker to stop a rival restaurant's evil plot.

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What happens

Good Burger is a 1997 American teen comedy film starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. It was directed by Brian Robbins, and written by Dan Schneider with Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert. The film is a spin-off of the "Good Burger" comedy sketch from the Nickelodeon variety series All That, with Mitchell reprising his role as Ed. The story follows Dexter Reed, a high school student who, to pay off the damages he made to his teacher's car, takes a summer job at the titular fast-food restaurant, where he and Ed, his dimwitted co-worker, stumble upon an evil plot by a rival fast-food restaurant. The film was produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Tollin/Robbins Productions, and was filmed from March to April 1997. It premiered on July 19, 1997, and was released worldwide on July 25 of the same year by Paramount Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $23.7 million. In the years after its release, the film received a cult following. A sequel titled Good Burger 2 was released on November 22, 2023, on Paramount+. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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