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25th Hour
2002
· Movie
· 135 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1195
- IMDb #861
- Rotten Tomatoes #1418
- Metacritic #1407
- Letterboxd #924
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2114
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1107
- Metacritic Critics #1524
- Metacritic Audience #1202
- Criticker #550
- Kinopoisk #1220
- AlloCiné #625
- Trakt #1554
Every rating
63–86
out of 100
A convicted drug dealer enjoys his last day of freedom before beginning a seven-year prison sentence. He spends his final hours in Manhattan with his close friends and his girlfriend, reflecting on his life, his mistakes, and the people around him. He questions who might have betrayed him to the police and grapples with his impending loss of freedom.
Details
- Director
- Spike Lee
- Writer
- David Benioff
- Based on
- The 25th Hour by David Benioff
- Released
- 19 December 2002
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $23.9M
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Awards
4 wins & 17 nominations total
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