<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> £ 3.5 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> £ 64.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Inbetweeners Movie is a 2011 British coming - of - age comedy film based on the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners, written by series creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris and directed by Ben Palmer . The film follows the misadventures of a group of teenage friends on holiday in Malia after the end of their final year at school together, and was intended as an ending to the TV series . It stars Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison . The Inbetweeners Movie was released on 17 August 2011 in the UK and Ireland by Entertainment Film Distributors, to favourable reviews, although its later release in the United States was not as well received . It was a commercial success, setting the record for the biggest opening weekend for a comedy film in the UK . A sequel, The Inbetweeners 2, was released on 6 August 2014 . </P> <P> Teenage friends Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright, and Neil Sutherland have finished their A-levels and are about to leave Rudge Park Comprehensive, much to the relief of Mr. Gilbert, their sardonic head of sixth form . Within their final week of school, Jay's grandfather dies; Simon is dumped by his girlfriend Carli D'Amato; Neil has a job as a fishmonger in a supermarket and Will's estranged father tells him that he has married his much younger mistress (who was responsible for Will's parents' divorce and is only four years older than Will). The boys decide to go on holiday together and Neil books them a holiday to Malia, Crete . </P>

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