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Blow Out
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #904
- IMDb #1291
- Rotten Tomatoes #1163
- Metacritic #357
- Letterboxd #387
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1272
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1572
- Metacritic Critics #359
- Metacritic Audience #666
- Criticker #397
- Douban #1088
- Kinopoisk #2145
- AlloCiné #901
- Trakt #1587
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 88.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A movie sound engineer accidentally records audio evidence of a political assassination involving a car crash. He saves a woman who was in the car, but soon discovers the official story is a cover-up. He becomes obsessed with using his recording to prove the truth, putting himself and the woman in grave danger from the conspirators.
Details
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Writers
- Bill Mesce Jr., Brian De Palma
- Released
- 24 July 1981
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $18.0M
- Box office
- $12.0M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| National Society of Film Critics Awards 1981 | Best Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 1981 | Best Classic DVD | Nominee |
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| Best Classic DVD | Nominee |