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Be Kind Rewind
2008
· Movie
· 102 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3624
- IMDb #3657
- Rotten Tomatoes #3111
- Metacritic #3150
- Letterboxd #2475
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3116
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3617
- Metacritic Critics #3199
- Metacritic Audience #2900
- Criticker #2515
- Douban #1412
- Kinopoisk #3604
- AlloCiné #1737
- Trakt #3818
Every rating
40–73
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 40, highest is Douban on 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →After a man's bizarre accident erases all the tapes in his friend's struggling video store, they devise a plan to stay in business. They begin recreating and filming their own low-budget, homemade versions of every movie their customers want to rent. Their "sweded" films become an unexpected local sensation, bringing together their community and revitalizing a neighborhood facing demolition, all through the power of makeshift creativity.
Details
- Director
- Michel Gondry
- Writer
- Michel Gondry
- Studio
- Partizan Films, Partizan Films
- Released
- 21 February 2008
- Country
- United States, France
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $30.6M
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