<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $48.4 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Life of the Party is a 2018 American comedy film directed by Ben Falcone and written by Falcone and Melissa McCarthy . It is the third film directed by Falcone and co-written by the pair, following Tammy (2014) and The Boss (2016). The film, starring McCarthy, Molly Gordon, Gillian Jacobs, Maya Rudolph, Julie Bowen, Matt Walsh, Debby Ryan, Adria Arjona, Jessie Ennis, Stephen Root, and Jacki Weaver, follows a newly divorced mother who returns to college to complete her degree, and ends up bonding with her daughter's friends . </P> <P> Produced by On the Day Productions and New Line Cinema, the film was released on May 11, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures . It received mixed reviews from critics, with one calling it "a frustratingly middling comedy that never really figures out what to do with all that talent and fails to produce consistent laughs ." </P> <P> After Deanna Miles gets a divorce from her husband Dan and decides to go back to college, she ends up in classes with her daughter, who is not comfortable with the idea . Deanna, soon known as Dee - Rock, plunges headlong into the campus experience and embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected . </P>

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