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Big Trouble in Little China
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2228
- IMDb #1686
- Google retired #824
- Rotten Tomatoes #2140
- Metacritic #2687
- Letterboxd #1451
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3046
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1426
- Metacritic Critics #3163
- Metacritic Audience #1743
- Criticker #1122
- Douban #2352
- Kinopoisk #2208
- AlloCiné #2130
- Trakt #1267
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 53, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 59, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A brash truck driver helps his friend rescue his fiancée from a gang in San Francisco's Chinatown. They are quickly drawn into an ancient, supernatural conflict beneath the streets, involving a centuries-old sorcerer, legendary martial artists, and mythical creatures. The trucker finds himself completely out of his depth in a world of magic he never knew existed.
Details
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Writers
- David Z. Weinstein, Gary Goldman
- Released
- 30 May 1986
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Cantonese
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $11.1M
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Cast
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Awards
1 win & 1 nomination total
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