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Good Boys (2019)

Good Boys poster
Directed by
Gene Stupnitsky
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
R
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 2,031 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three sixth-grade boys try to get to a party with popular kids. Their day gets complicated by a series of escalating mishaps.

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What happens

Good Boys is a 2019 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Gene Stupnitsky, in his directorial debut, and written by Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg. It stars Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, and Brady Noon as three sixth-graders who find themselves in a series of misadventures as they try to attend a party hosted by their popular classmates. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg produced the film through their Point Grey Pictures company. The film premiered at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. on March 11, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 16, 2019 by Universal Pictures. It received generally positive reviews and was a box-office success, grossing $111 million worldwide on a $20 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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