My Friend Dahmer (2017)

Directed by

Marc Meyers

Genre

drama film, biographical film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 650 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This movie follows high school student Jeffrey Dahmer in the 1970s before he became a serial killer. It focuses on his troubled home life and his odd behavior that worried his classmates.

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What happens

My Friend Dahmer is a 2017 American biographical crime drama film written and directed by Marc Meyers about American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. The film is based on the 2012 graphic novel of the same name by cartoonist John "Derf" Backderf, who had been friends with Dahmer in high school in the 1970s, until the time Dahmer began his killing spree in 1978. The film stars Ross Lynch as Dahmer, Alex Wolff as Derf, Dallas Roberts as Lionel, Jeffrey's father, and Anne Heche as Joyce, Jeffrey's mother. The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was released in the United States on November 3, 2017, by Hulu. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its historical accuracy and Lynch's performance, but was a box office bomb, grossing $1.4 million worldwide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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