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Before I Wake
2016
· Movie
· 97 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3231
- IMDb #4213
- Google retired #2115
- Rotten Tomatoes #3278
- Metacritic #2141
- Letterboxd #4337
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2958
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4158
- Metacritic Audience #3108
- Kinopoisk #4308
- AlloCiné #2695
- Trakt #3252
Every rating
48–84
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 48, highest is Google on 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A couple adopts a young foster child who is afraid to fall asleep. They soon discover the reason for his fear: his dreams and nightmares manifest physically in the waking world. When he dreams of beautiful things, like butterflies, they appear. But when he has a bad dream, particularly about a terrifying figure he calls the "Canker Man," that too becomes real, posing a grave danger to everyone around him.
Details
- Director
- Mike Flanagan
- Writers
- Jeff Howard, Mike Flanagan
- Released
- 7 April 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Box office
- $4.9M
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