<Li> Miles Robbins as Figg </Li> <P> The script appeared on 2014's Black List . Ross Lynch was cast as the teenage Dahmer in 2016 . Later in the month Alex Wolff, Vincent Kartheiser and Anne Heche joined the cast, with Heche playing Dahmer's mother . The movie was filmed in Akron, Ohio . </P> <P> My Friend Dahmer premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival on April 21, 2017 . On May 15, 2017, FilmRise acquired distribution rights to the film, planning to release it in the fall . </P>

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