Summary
After Richard finds out that his best and only friend, a dwarf hamster named Etienne, has terminal cancer, he decides to take his pocket pet on a bicycle road trip to show him the world before he has to put him to sleep.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+21)
Critics 88Audiences 67GoodWatch 83
Tomatometer88%
IMDb6.7
Audience score67%
Running time
1 h 28 min
Shorter than most comedies, −12 min on the typical 100
typical 10088Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 131 countries, rent or buy in 1 more
+121Released
2009
June 12, 2009
17 years ago
Genre
ComedyLanguage
English
Original language
Directing · 1
- Jeff Mizushima Director, Screenplay, Producer
Production · 2
- Jeremy Boreing Producer
- Giacun Caduff Producer
Camera · 1
- Tim van der Linden Director of Photography
Sound · 1
- Mark Baechle Original Music Composer
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