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City Lights
MEANRANK
89/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #16
- IMDb #52
- Google retired #534
- Rotten Tomatoes #90
- Metacritic #16
- Letterboxd #117
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #434
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #95
- Metacritic Critics #18
- Metacritic Audience #101
- Criticker #32
- Douban #26
- Kinopoisk #39
- AlloCiné #65
- Trakt #198
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 77, highest is Metacritic critics on 99.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A penniless tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl who mistakenly believes he is a wealthy millionaire. Desperate to maintain the illusion and help her, he goes to great lengths to get money for an operation that could restore her sight. His efforts lead him into a series of comedic and poignant misadventures, including a unlikely friendship with a real millionaire.
Details
- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Writers
- Charlie Chaplin, Harry Carr, Harry Crocker
- Studio
- Charles Chaplin Productions
- Released
- 6 February 1931
- Country
- United States
- Language
- None, English
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Box office
- $4.2M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 1931 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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