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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #191
- IMDb #254
- Metacritic #134
- Letterboxd #243
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #142
- Metacritic Critics #79
+4 more
- Metacritic Audience #241
- Kinopoisk #246
- AlloCiné #197
- Trakt #394
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic users on 71, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 91.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Set in the summer of 1969, this story unfolds through the eyes of a young boy growing up in Houston, Texas. His world is saturated with the excitement of the impending Apollo 11 moon landing. He daydreams of being recruited by NASA for a secret mission to lunar orbit. The narrative is a nostalgic tapestry of childhood imagination, family life, and the cultural fervor of the space race, blending personal fantasy with a pivotal moment in American history.
Details
- Director
- Richard Linklater
- Writer
- Richard Linklater
- Studio
- Detour Filmproduction, Submarine
- Released
- 24 March 2022
- Country
- United States, Netherlands
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 1 win, 9 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 10 →1 win from 10 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| Austin Film Critics Association 2023 | Best Animated Film | Nominee | |
| Austin Film Critics Association 2023 | Best Austin Film | Nominee | |
| Georgia Film Critics Association 2023 | Best Animated Film | Nominee | |
| Houston Film Critics Society 2023 | Texas Independent Film Award | Winner | |
| Houston Film Critics Society 2023 | Best Animated Feature | Nominee | |
| Online Film Critics Society 2023 | Best Animated Feature | Nominee | |
| San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle 2023 | Best Animated Feature | Nominee | |
| Chicago Film Critics Association 2022 | Best Animated Film | Nominee |
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