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In Los Angeles, cashier Audrey Stockton spends her birthday upset after being dumped, via text, by her boyfriend, Drew. Her charismatic best friend and roommate, Morgan, convinces her to burn Drew’s things and sends him a text as a heads up. Unbeknownst to Audrey, Drew is a government agent being pursued by men trying to kill him. He promises to return and asks Audrey not to burn his things in the meantime.
At her job, Audrey flirts with a man who asks her to walk him to his car. Outside, he and a colleague force her into a van and he proceeds to tell her he is Sebastian Henshaw and that Drew works for the C.I.A. and has gone missing. Audrey claims not to have heard from Drew and upon returning home, informs Morgan that Drew is a spy. Drew returns to Audrey’s apartment to retrieve his possessions, including a second place trophy he won from fantasy football.
People soon begin shooting into the apartment and Drew tells Audrey that, if anything were to happen to him, she must travel to Vienna and turn over the trophy to his contact. Drew is then murdered by a man Morgan had previously met at the bar, who is himself a spy, who is then killed by Morgan by pushing him off the balcony before he can attack Audrey.
The Spy Who Dumped Me is a 2018 American action comedy film directed by Susanna Fogel and co-written by Fogel and David Iserson. The film stars Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan, Hasan Minhaj and Gillian Anderson and follows two best friends who are chased through Europe by assassins after one of their ex-boyfriends turns out to be a CIA agent. The film was released in the United States on August 3, 2018, by Lionsgate. It grossed over $75 million and received mixed reviews from critics, who questioned the film’s intended genre and tone but praised the performances.
Principal photography began production in Budapest, Hungary in July 2017. It also took place in Amsterdam that September, wrapping that same month. The Spy Who Dumped Me premiered at Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles on July 25, 2018. The film was originally scheduled to be released on July 6, 2018, but after “a phenomenal test screening” it was pushed back a month to August 3, 2018, in order to avoid a crowded July frame.Home media
The Spy Who Dumped Me was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 30, 2018 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. It grossed $33.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $41.7 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $75.3 million, against a production budget of $40 million.
In the United States and Canada, The Spy Who Dumped Me was released alongside Christopher Robin, The Darkest Minds and Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?, and was projected to gross $10–15 million from 3,111 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $5 million on its first day, including $950,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $12.4 million, finishing third at the box office behind holdover Mission: Impossible – Fallout and Christopher Robin. It fell 45% to $6.6 million in its second weekend, finishing sixth.
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The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Directed by: Susanna Fogel
Starring: Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Blanka Györfi-Tóth, Vilma Szécsi, Lolly Adefope, Dustin Demri-Burns, Mirjam Novak, Ágnes Bánfalvy, Peter Schueller
Screenplay by: Susanna Fogel, David Iserson
Production Design by: Marc Homes
Cinematography by: Barry Peterson
Film Editing by: Jonathan Schwartz
Costume Design by: Alex Bovaird
Set Decoration by: Roxy Balogh, Linette McCown, Melinda Sanders, Mary Mitchell Williams
Art Direction by: Alan Hook, Nic Pallace, Stefan Speth, Zoltán Sárdi, Ketan Waikar
Music by: Tyler Bates
MPAA Rating: R for violence, language throughout, some crude sexual material and graphic nudity.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: August 3, 2018
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