<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 . Filming took place 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 . The film was released in limited theaters on November 3, 2017 . </P> <P> On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 76% based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4 / 10 . The site's critical consensus reads, "My Friend Dahmer opens a window into the making of a serial killer whose conclusions are as empathetic as they are deeply troubling ." Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". </P>

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