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The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest Image
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Metascore
20 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 4 Critics What's this?

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8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

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  • Summary: A successful marketing executive decides to chuck his non-stop, upwardly-mobile lifestyle when he realizes that he wants to be a creator instead of a seller. (20th Century Fox)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4
  1. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    60
    Director Mick Jackson (L.A. Story) delivers playful and charming teens-turned-30 moxie.
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  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    25
    The movie, directed by Mick Jackson, leaves no cliché unturned, from the predictable plot to the characters straight out of central casting.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    20
    Feels entirely a part of an already faded go-go era. Pic is too late by a mile and rightly dumped in a few theaters by Fox, which will doubtless send it to video bins faster than you can say gigabyte.

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