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Bird on a Wire
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4872
- IMDb #4590
- Rotten Tomatoes #4606
- Metacritic #4034
- Letterboxd #4128
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4904
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4508
- Metacritic Critics #4508
- Metacritic Audience #2616
- Criticker #3284
- Kinopoisk #1844
- AlloCiné #3881
- Trakt #4073
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 26, highest is Google on 74. Critics average 31, everyone else 59.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A former federal witness living under a new identity has his cover blown when his old girlfriend randomly recognizes him. Their chance reunion triggers an immediate onslaught from the vicious drug dealers he testified against years ago. Now on the run together, the bickering ex-couple must evade a relentless pursuit across the country, rediscovering their chemistry while trying to stay one step ahead of the killers hunting them.
Details
- Director
- John Badham
- Writers
- David Seltzer, Eric Lerner, Louis Venosta
- Released
- 18 May 1990
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $138.7M
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