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Dirty Deeds
Freestyle Releasing LLC

Dirty Deeds reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 28 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.0 out of 10
based on 6 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude humor, sexual content, language, teen partying/drug references and some violence

Starring Milo Ventimiglia, Lacey Chabert, Charles Durning, Matthew Carey, Alex Solowitz, Zoe Saldana, Billy L. Sullivan, and Tom Amandes

A teen comedy in which a high school senior tries to become the first student ever to complete the "Dirty Deeds," an wild series of challenges that must be completed between dusk and dawn on the Friday night of Homecoming Weekend.


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Jon Land
Jonathan Thies
 
DIRECTED BY: David Kendall  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: January 10, 2006 
Theatrical: August 26, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 87 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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40
Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
Recycling is alive but not well in the outmoded teen comedy Dirty Deeds, with a result that is more toxic than intoxicating.
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38
ReelViews James Berardinelli
Dirty Deeds boasts a passably entertaining idea that is butchered in the telling.
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33
Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
Too mild to be dirty, yet too dirty to be charming, and altogether too generic to be much of anything.
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30
LA Weekly Tim Grierson
Directed lifelessly by sitcom vet David Kendall (Growing Pains), Dirty Deeds never shows real curiosity about its characters' pubescent world.
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30
Variety Justin Chang
A dispiritingly lazy high school comedy.
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30
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Dirty Deeds is as feeble as a teen comedy can get.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Rachel gave it a7:
Light and entertaining caricature that doesn't pretend to be realistic.

garrett m. gave it a10:
Funny and well acted.

G W gave it a5:
Mildly amusing, but the deeds weren't all that dirty, and a movie with a title like that needs to go further. Basically, because they went for PG-13, they made it too pedestrian and not very much fun. Paint-by-numbers. Could have been better, but leaden in the telling.

jah l. gave it a10:
Brilliant.

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