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Max Keeble's Big Move

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Max Keeble's Big Move
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTim Hill
Screenplay by
Story by
  • David Watts
  • Jonathan Bernstein
  • Mark Blackwell
  • James Greer
Produced byMike Karz
Starring
CinematographyArthur Albert
Edited by
  • Tony Lombardo
  • Peck Prior
Music byMichael Wandmacher
Production
companies
Distributed byBuena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release date
  • October 5, 2001 (2001-10-05)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25 million[1]
Box office$18.6 million[1]

Max Keeble's Big Move is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Tim Hill, written by David L. Watts, James Greer, Jonathan Bernstein and Mark Blackwell and starring Alex D. Linz, Larry Miller, Jamie Kennedy, Nora Dunn, and Robert Carradine. The plot follows the eponymous Max and his friends, who begin going to junior high school only to learn Max and his family will soon move elsewhere; Max resolves to get even with those who bully him and his friends before he leaves since he will not remain long enough to face discipline for anything he does.

The film was released in the United States on October 5, 2001, by Walt Disney Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office bomb that grossed $18 million against its $25 million budget.

Max Keeble's Big Move - Part 2 (The return of the big max) - Plot

Max is now officerly graduating high school age 17 and is players by Alex Warrenlike as a 17 year old high schooler who want's to beat up, bully and do other things to other students the episode starts as max is getting out of bed and is scene shirtless doing some boxing practice before school starts, the next scene cuts to max at school holding a newspaper for a evil mailbox whomen from india named karen,

Cast

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  • Alex D. Linz as Max Keeble, a junior high school student.
  • Larry Miller as Principal Elliot T. Jindrake, the corrupt and tyrannical principal.
  • Jamie Kennedy as the Evil Ice Cream Man, an unnamed ice cream vendor who plans revenge on Max ever since the latter found a bug in a snow cone and his mother called the health department on him.
  • Zena Grey as Megan, Max's female friend.
  • Josh Peck as Robe, the robe-wearing friend of Max.
  • Nora Dunn as Lily Keeble, Max's mother.
  • Robert Carradine as Donald Keeble, Max's father.
  • Clifton Davis as Bobby "Crazy Legs" Knebworth, a former football player and the superintendent of the school district that Max's school is in.
  • Amy Hill as Ms. Phyllis Rangoon, Principal Jindrake's secretary.
  • Amber Valletta as Ms. Nicole Dingman, one of Max's teachers.
  • Veronica Alicino as Mrs. Talia, Max's strict social studies teacher, and one of Dobbs's friends.
  • Noel Fisher as Troy McGinty, one of Max's bullies.
  • Orlando Brown as Dobbs, one of Max's bullies who gets into a feud with the Evil Ice Cream Man whenever Dobbs poaches his customers.
  • Justin Berfield as Caption writer
  • Brooke Anne Smith as Jenna, the love interest of Max.
  • Myra Ambriz as Chelsea
  • Dennis Haskins as Mr. Kohls
  • Chely Wright as Mrs. Styles, the Homeroom Teacher.

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Reception

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Box office

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Max Keeble's Big Move grossed $17.3 million in the United States and Canada and $1.3 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $18.6 million, against a production budget of $25 million.[1]

The film grossed $5.4 million in its opening weekend, finishing 7th at the box office.

Critical response

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On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Max Keeble's Big Move has an approval rating of 29% based on 56 reviews, and an average rating of 4.31/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Max Keeble may be fun for kids, but bland and unoriginal for adults."[2] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score 40 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)". Box Office Mojo, LLC. Archived from the original on 2018-12-16. Retrieved 2006-11-24.
  2. ^ "Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on September 8, 2024. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  3. ^ "Max Keeble's Big Move reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
  4. ^ "Max Keeble's Big Move - CinemaScore". CinemaScore.com. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
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