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Children of Heaven
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #410
- IMDb #171
- Google retired #39
- Rotten Tomatoes #669
- Metacritic #1020
- Letterboxd #192
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1796
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #108
- Metacritic Critics #898
- Metacritic Audience #1486
- Criticker #204
- Kinopoisk #275
- Trakt #374
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 71, highest is Google on 98.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young boy in Tehran accidentally loses his sister's only pair of shoes. Too afraid of their father's anger and knowing the family's poverty, they decide to keep it a secret. The siblings devise a plan to share the boy's sneakers, with the girl wearing them to school in the morning and frantically running them back to her brother for his afternoon classes.
Details
- Director
- Majid Majidi
- Writer
- Majid Majidi
- Released
- 1 August 1997
- Country
- Iran
- Language
- Persian
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Budget
- $180.0K
- Box office
- $925.4K
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 71st Academy Awards 1999 | Best International Feature Film | Nominee | |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1999 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Iran | Nominee |
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