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My Friend Dahmer
Directed by
Marc Meyers
R
2017
1h 47m
Drama
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6.2
85%
61%
6.5
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A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.
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Cast of My Friend Dahmer
Ross Lynch
Jeffrey Dahmer
Alex Wolff
John 'Derf' Backderf
Anne Heche
Joyce Dahmer
Dallas Roberts
Lionel Dahmer
Liam Koeth
Dave Dahmer
Nancy Telzerow
Carol Backderf
Tommy Nelson
Neil
Harrison Holzer
Mike
Brigid Naughton
Melody
Cameron McKendry
Moose
Katie Stottlemire
Penny
Brady M.K. Dunn
Bossy
Jake Ingrassia
Gooch
Michael Ryan Boehm
Shorty
Ben Zgorecki
Bully Jock
Dontez James
Charlie Smith
Miles Robbins
Lloyd Figg
Gabriela Novogratz
Lisa Watkins / Associate Producer
Jack DeVillers
Oliver Zlatka
Dave Sorboro
Steven Hicks
My Friend Dahmer Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Pat Padua
Meyers makes "My Friend Dahmer" a convincing high school drama, but his portrait of the serial killer as a young man telegraphs Dahmer's future all too clearly.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
My Friend Dahmer is at its most provocative when it considers this dynamic between the exploiters and the exploited. In making Dahmer feel like a freak, did the boys push him over the edge into a murderous contempt for all people?
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Which came first, bullies or dead animals in jars? "Friend" does not say, nor is there a clear link between the discord in Jeff's home and his behavior.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
A morbidly fascinating peek behind the blood-stained curtains.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A warped wonder of a movie about a cannibalistic serial killer's awkward teenage years-it takes twisted to areas few have investigated.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
More than a week after watching writer-director Marc Meyers' My Friend Dahmer, I'm still trying to figure out who exactly the film is meant for and why on earth it was made.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
[Ross] Lynch is opaque in the spookiest way.
RogerEbert.com
Scout Tafoya
Meyers recreates Dahmer's world so wholly that you don't leave with questions even if the big one remains purposely unanswered.
NPR
Andrew Lapin
It's a nuanced and sad high school movie, a portrait of lonely, damaged youth that only gradually reveals itself as the origin story of a psychopath.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
The world may never tire of being fascinated with serial killers, but "My Friend Dahmer" avoids exploitation often enough to forge its own perceptive, tense, character-driven path.
Village Voice
April Wolfe
My Friend Dahmer is both sensitive and fascinating, distinguished by a stellar, mouth-breathing performance of insecurity from [Ross] Lynch.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
This film is sensitively wrought. It's credible in its evocation of mid-'70s suburbia. The acting is excellent throughout, and Ross Lynch in the role of Dahmer elicits genuine sympathy for an increasingly lost but not yet monstrous soul.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
... an eerie and effective portrait of serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer in his beyond-troubled teen years, a quick hop into the mind of a loner kid who was about to become a monster.
Slant Magazine
Christopher Gray
The film wants to treat Jeffrey Dahmer like a character, but it invariably frames him like a specimen.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
My Friend Dahmer is one of the most disturbing coming-of-age features in memory. But it's also exceptionally moving.
AV Club
Katie Rife
Jeffrey Dahmer was a real person, with a family and at least a couple of casual friends. The people he killed were, too. The discomfort of reconciling those two facts is where this film lives, and what ultimately makes it work.
TheWrap
Inkoo Kang
There is such a chasm between the unreadable character we see and the extraordinary grisliness of Dahmer's crimes that this depiction is as helpful as those inevitable attributions of mass murderers as "quiet, normal-seeming" men from shocked neighbors.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
At the core is an unnerving and mesmerizing performance by Austin & Ally star Lynch, who may have managed the most revolutionary reinvention for a Disney Channel alum since Ryan Gosling.
CBR
Kristy Puchko
It aims to capitalize on our perverse fascination with the Milwaukee Cannibal, while congratulating ourselves for finding a moral message in his tragedy.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
I'm still not quite sure how they made this work - but they did.
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