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Before Sunset
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #169
- IMDb #225
- Google retired #1110
- Rotten Tomatoes #243
- Metacritic #65
- Letterboxd #112
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #391
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #426
- Metacritic Critics #152
- Metacritic Audience #66
- Criticker #218
- Douban #87
- Kinopoisk #796
- AlloCiné #1582
- Trakt #182
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 95.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Nine years after a chance encounter in Vienna, an American writer and a French woman meet again in Paris. He is promoting a book inspired by their one night together, and she attends his reading. They have a brief window of time before his flight leaves to walk through the city and discuss what might have been.
Details
- Director
- Richard Linklater
- Writers
- Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Kim Krizan, Richard Linklater
- Released
- 16 June 2004
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.7M
- Box office
- $16.0M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 77th Academy Awards 2005 | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Richard Linklater | Nominee |
| 77th Academy Awards 2005 | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Julie Delpy | Nominee |
| 77th Academy Awards 2005 | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Ethan Hawke | Nominee |
| 77th Academy Awards 2005 | Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Kim Krizan | Nominee |
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4 awards — Before Sunset
×| Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Richard Linklater | Nominee |
| Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Julie Delpy | Nominee |
| Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Ethan Hawke | Nominee |
| Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay | Kim Krizan | Nominee |