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  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 21 m

Summary Les Franken is a kind-hearted and soft-spoken man who loves reading comic books. He’s completely average and virtually invisible. However, everything changes for Les the day he is accepted into an experimental drug study for a new and exciting anti-depressant, Specioprin Hydrochloride. As Les begins to take the drugs an unexpected side e...

Directed By: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore

Written By: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore

  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Magnet Releasing
  • 1 h 21 m

Special

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
57
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 44 User Ratings
7.7
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Summary Les Franken is a kind-hearted and soft-spoken man who loves reading comic books. He’s completely average and virtually invisible. However, everything changes for Les the day he is accepted into an experimental drug study for a new and exciting anti-depressant, Specioprin Hydrochloride. As Les begins to take the drugs an unexpected side e...

Directed By: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore

Written By: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
57
43% Positive
3 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
57
43% Positive
3 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review

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80
This is a weird little movie, and it's an interesting trip accompanying Dick Ritchie on his transformation.
By Eric Campos FULL REVIEW
80
The movie loses its way toward the end, shifting from wry black comedy to slightly overdone pathos. But there's plenty here to appreciate, making the title perfectly apt.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
75
Special recalls a minor-key "Donnie Darko," but its vision is much more limited, and it sinks into Indiewood cliché whenever it reaches for profundity.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
58
Thanks to Rapaport's brio in embracing the hero's drug-induced delusions, the movie is less a failure than a noble experiment gone awry.
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50
Either way, it doesn’t quite go far enough as psychological study or cultural commentary.
By Nathan Lee FULL REVIEW
50
All that's left then is a miserablist analogue to M. Night Shyamalan's "Unbreakable," a sad portrait of paranoid delusion with wipe-out stunts played for the comic wincing of "Jackass."
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38
Rappaport does a yeoman's job in this tonally confused oddity. The wonder is that Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore's Special is making it off the festival circuit and into theaters at all, however briefly.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 44 User Ratings
7.7
80% Positive
35 Ratings
2% Mixed
1 Rating
18% Negative
8 Ratings

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 44 User Ratings
7.7
80% Positive
35 Ratings
2% Mixed
1 Rating
18% Negative
8 Ratings

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Production Company Rival Pictures
Release Date Nov 21, 2008
Duration 1 h 21 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline He's not your ordinary superhero.
Website http://www.specialthemovie.com/
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Awards

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Toronto After Dark Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Zurich Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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