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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Dec 14, 1988
110 min
ComedyCrime
7.1/ 10
943 votes

Overview

Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.

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TMDB
7.1/10
943 votes
IMDB
7.4/10
82,930 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
89%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
M
68/100
Metascore

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Box Office & Budget

Budget$6,500,000Production cost
Box Office$42,000,000Worldwide gross
Profit$35,500,000Profitable
ROI
+546.2%Return on investment
US Box Office$42,039,085Domestic earnings

Awards & Nominations

1 win & 1 nomination total

Details

Production information

"Nice guys finish last. Meet the winners."

Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$6,500,000

Revenue

$42,000,000

Production Companies

Orion Pictures

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