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Alpha
2018
· Movie
· 96 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2426
- IMDb #3190
- Google retired #632
- Rotten Tomatoes #2371
- Metacritic #2327
- Letterboxd #3847
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2647
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2528
- Metacritic Critics #2172
- Metacritic Audience #2673
- Kinopoisk #3296
- AlloCiné #2951
- Trakt #2351
Every rating
61–92
out of 100
During the last Ice Age, a young hunter is separated from his tribe and left for dead after a brutal buffalo hunt. Injured and alone, he must learn to survive the harsh wilderness. He forms an unlikely alliance with a wounded wolf, and together they learn to trust each other. This partnership becomes the key to his survival and his long, perilous journey back home.
Details
- Director
- Albert Hughes
- Writers
- Albert Hughes, Dan Wiedenhaupt
- Studio
- Studio 8, Columbia Pictures, Fosun Pictures
- Released
- 17 August 2018
- Country
- Canada, United States, China
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $51.0M
- Box office
- $99.6M
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Awards
2 wins total
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