

The Boy
Every child needs to feel loved.
A young American woman takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, soon discovering that the family's eight-year-old son is a life-sized doll that comes with a list of strict rules.
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6.0/10
4,062 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $10M
- Box office
- $73.9M
- Language
- English
- mask
- suicide
- fire
- england
- loss of loved one
- shower
- country house
- nanny
- murder
- mansion
- doll
- burn victim
Top billed cast
Behind the camera
Where to watch
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1322 Jan 2016
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1519 Feb 2016
- Physical15DVD11 Jul 2016
AustraliaAU
- PhysicalMDVD11 Jul 2016
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A22 Jan 2016
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical18 Feb 2016
BrazilBR
- Theatrical18 Feb 2016
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical155 May 2016
FinlandFI
- Theatrical19 Feb 2016
FranceFR
- Theatrical1227 Jan 2016
- Digital / OTT8 Apr 2016
- Physical12DVD / Blu-ray27 May 2016
- Digital / OTT12Prime Video1 Mar 2022
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1218 Feb 2016
- Physical12DVD23 Jun 2016
GreeceGR
- TheatricalΚ-1528 Jan 2016
- PhysicalDVD26 May 2016
Hong KongHK
- TheatricalIIB21 Apr 2016
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The Boy was released on 22 January 2016.
Audience reviews
5- F
Frank Ochieng
2/8/2016
Let’s face facts…it is inevitable that bad horror films and the new beginning of a movie season go together as systematically as skeleton bones to an unmarked grave. In either case, both scenarios are routinely realized and does not look to change at any time in the immediate future. Director William Brent Bell’s (‘The Devil Inside’) latest banal boofest **‘The Boy’** is basically business as usual in terms of regist…
- R6/10
Reno
5/14/2016
> When a nanny meets a boy who is a weird toy. So this is the other 'The Boy'. The last year film was a thriller-drama, but this is a horror-mystery. It feels like watching a classic horror film, especially because of the English atmosphere and the house where it was shot. A young American woman named Greta, takes up a nanny job in England to escape from the troubled relationship with her boyfriend. She discovers …
- A
Austin Singleton
8/11/2016
One of the best horror movies I've watched in the last decade. Watch my full review here. http://www.hweird1reviews.com/allreviews//the-boy-review
- G5/10
Gimly
9/4/2016
Takes the tired old "Living Doll" premise and does okay with it by adding in a couple little spritzes of originality and a cast up to task. These two factors, as well as a pretty compelling third act almost salvage a good movie from this worn-out, boring premise. Almost. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
- S2/10
skyezero
6/15/2017
I thought to myself, finally someone out there is making a movie on something which is an incredibly common phobia, this is going to be AMAZING! How wrong was I. After watching this movie I asked my partner what would she do in the females position of having to look after the porcelain Momma’s boy, she replied “shave him and put lipstick on him” - I found this response better than watching the entire movie. I don’t …
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