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Blood Simple
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #714
- IMDb #1072
- Google retired #2519
- Rotten Tomatoes #440
- Metacritic #492
- Letterboxd #837
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #524
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #772
- Metacritic Critics #449
- Metacritic Audience #907
- Criticker #386
- Douban #835
- Kinopoisk #1572
- AlloCiné #963
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A jealous Texas bar owner hires a seedy private investigator to murder his wife and her new lover. The investigator fakes the murders and takes the money, but his plan unravels, leading to a cascading series of double-crosses, misunderstandings, and brutal violence. Each character's paranoid assumptions about the others' actions propel them all toward a bloody and inevitable conclusion.
Details
- Director
- Joel Coen
- Writers
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Released
- 18 January 1985
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
- $4.2M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award 1985 | Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award | Winner | |
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 1984 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
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×| Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award | Winner |
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |