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The Spy Who Dumped Me

also known as “El espía que me plantó,” “Il tuo ex non muore mai,” “L'Espion qui m'a larguée,” “A kém, aki dobott engem,” See all »
MPA Rating: R-Rating (MPA) for violence, language throughout, some crude sexual material and graphic nudity.
Moral Rating: Not Recommended
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Primary Audience: • Young Adults • Adults
Genre: Action Spy Comedy
Length: 1 hr. 56 min.
Year of Release: 2018
USA Release: August 3, 2018 (wide—3,111 theaters)
DVD: October 30, 2018
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Featuring Mila KunisAudrey
Sam Heughan … Sebastian
Kate McKinnonMorgan
Justin TherouxDrew
Gillian Anderson … Wendy
Ivanna Sakhno … Nadedja
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson … The Backpacker
Justine Wachsberger … Inès
Fred Melamed … Roger
Hasan Minhaj … Patel
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Director Susanna Fogel
Producer Imagine Entertainment
Lionsgate
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Distributor

Continual vulgar and profane language, plus male nudity, crude sex talk and innuendos, extremely heavy violence and numerous deaths… in a “comedy”

Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “Audrey and Morgan are best friends who unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of the women discovers the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy.

Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious-but-charming British agent, as they hatch a plan to save the world.”

  • Violence: Extreme— • Various violent and brutal and sometimes fights in various scenes • Bloody, deadly impalement • Neck broken • Stabbings with knife • Stabbings with syringes • Killing by drowning • Much gunfire in efforts to kill • Gun battles, including with machine guns • Various people shot dead (some bloody results) • Innocent people shot • Torture • Explosion set that blows up a building with people inside • Callous assassins at work • Violent car crash • Man killed by bus • Bound and gagged women • Women kicked and struck in face • Cutting off a man’s finger • Near hanging
  • Vulgar/Crude language: Extreme— • f-words (55+ including “F*ck you, you useless nut sack,” “You f*cking d*ck,” “F*ck-tards”) • “motherf*cker” • “d*ck” (“Did you get the d*ck pics?”, “Is that supposed to be a d*ck?”, “I’ll cut off your d*ck”) • s-words (20+) • a**hole (2) • a** (3, including “F*ck you, wipe your own a**”) • boobs (2) • “soft, supple udders” (a man says about a woman’s breasts) • b*tch (2) • “You skank”
  • Profane language: Extreme— • “Oh my G*d” (60+) • “J*sus” (2) • “God d*mn” (2) • “My G*d” (2) • “Good G*d” (2)
  • Sex/Nudity: Very Heavy to Extreme— • close rear view of man’s privates • full frontal male nudity (brief) • conversation about receiving photos of a man’s privates • comments about sex with circumcised male versus non • various very vulgar sexual comments • vulgar sexual gesture by a woman • woman hides item in her private parts and then retrieves it • woman strips to underwear • passionate couple kissing • bare-breasted female statues • repeated cleavage • shirtless male and another in swimming suit
  • Alcohol/Drugs: • Cocaine • Crack cocaine • Drinking hard liquor • Reference to smoking lots of “meth” • Comment about one of the leads having stolen and sold painkilling drugs • Etc.

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Secular Movie Critics
The violence gives the movie a sour edge, because it feels as though it’s presenting death as a big joke. And that sourness affects the comedy. …
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
…To say it’s all over the place, a frenzied collection of hits and misses, is to both capture its shortcomings and deliver a fairly cogent plot summary. …the movie also has a playfully vicious screwball energy that consistently locates the violence in every joke, the humor in every kill. …
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
…it’s an easy, awfully disposable two hours that scatters some off-kilter belly laughs among a lot of labored gags and efficiently-shot action movie setpieces. …
Ty Burr, The Boston Globe
…McKinnon dives head-first into every imbecilic scene, and Kunis stoically pretends to believe her BFF is sentient. But the movie around them is a wreck, and no amount of cloak-and-dagger will keep that secret for long. …
John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
…The filmmakers are strangely fond of deploying bloodshed as a kind of shock punchline, introducing some goofy comedic side character and then abruptly killing him off, a technique that tends to feel arbitrary and even a little bit ugly. … [1/4]
Keith Watson, Slant