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Bringing Out the Dead
1999
· Movie
· 121 min
B
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2292
- IMDb #2441
- Rotten Tomatoes #2265
- Metacritic #1239
- Letterboxd #1379
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2486
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2583
- Metacritic Critics #1286
- Metacritic Audience #1232
- Criticker #1230
- Kinopoisk #2294
- AlloCiné #2359
- Trakt #3327
Every rating
55–75
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 55, highest is Metacritic users on 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A burnt-out paramedic works the night shift in a hellish area of New York City. Haunted by the patients he has failed to save, he moves through a series of grim and surreal emergency calls over three nights, seeking both redemption and a reason to continue in his emotionally draining profession.
Details
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Writer
- Paul Schrader
- Based on
- Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly
- Released
- 22 October 1999
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $32.0M
- Box office
- $16.8M
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Awards
2 wins & 5 nominations total
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