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Horrible Bosses (2011)

Horrible Bosses poster
Directed by
Seth Gordon
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
R
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 6,857 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three friends are stuck with horrible bosses who make their lives miserable. They come up with a crazy plan to get rid of them.

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What happens

Horrible Bosses is a 2011 American crime black comedy film directed by Seth Gordon and written by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein, from a story by Markowitz. It stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, and Jamie Foxx. The plot follows three friends, played by Bateman, Day, and Sudeikis, who decide to murder their respective overbearing, abusive bosses, portrayed by Spacey, Aniston, and Farrell. Markowitz's script was bought by New Line Cinema in 2005 and the film spent six years in various states of pre-production, with a variety of actors attached to different roles. By 2010, Goldstein and Daley had rewritten the script, and the film finally went into production. The film premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on June 30, 2011, and was released on July 8, 2011, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received mixed reviews and grossed $209.8 million worldwide. A sequel, Horrible Bosses 2, was released on November 26, 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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