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A Dog's Purpose
2017
· Movie
· 100 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2593
- IMDb #1523
- Google retired #138
- Rotten Tomatoes #3455
- Metacritic #3829
- Letterboxd #1619
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4506
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2252
- Metacritic Critics #4023
- Metacritic Audience #3183
- Criticker #2312
- Douban #890
- Kinopoisk #145
- AlloCiné #474
- Trakt #347
Every rating
35–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 35, highest is Google on 96. Critics average 39, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A dog is reincarnated multiple times, being reborn as different breeds and into different families over the course of decades. With each new life, he retains the memories of his previous ones and wonders what his purpose is. His journey leads him back to his original owner, a boy named Ethan, whom he loved in his first life, and he strives to reunite with him.
Details
- Director
- Lasse Hallström
- Based on
- A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
- Released
- 19 January 2017
- Country
- India, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $22.0M
- Box office
- $205.0M