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Live Free or Die

Starring Aaron Stanford, Paul Schneider, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Dunn, Zooey Deschanel, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Judah Friedlander, and Peter Anthony Tambakis

MPAA RATING: R for pervasive language including sex references

ThinkFilm
Comedy  |  Crime
89 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters March 30, 2007

Taking its title from the state motto of New Hampshire, Live Free or Die is a deadpan comedy about a clueless, aspiring criminal named John "Rugged" Rudgate (Stanford). (ThinkFilm)

WRITTEN BY
Gregg Kavet
Andy Robin

DIRECTED BY
Gregg Kavet
Andy Robin

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

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Critic Reviews

63 Boston Globe
This isn't a great movie -- it's barely good, really -- but it gets something about New Hampshire I've rarely seen onscreen: a defiant pride in the way things don't work out. Live Free is a comedy of vastly diminished criminal expectations. That's the fun of it, and the frustration, too.
50 Film Threat Don R. Lewis
Live Free or Die is a low-fi farce that technically works. But in the end it feels like a pale version of say "Raising Arizona" or even "After Hours."
30 Variety
Criminally short on laughs as it tries to wring humor from dull activity by dim bulbs.

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