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City of Ember
2008
· Movie
· 95 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4078
- IMDb #3686
- Google retired #2989
- Rotten Tomatoes #3755
- Metacritic #2900
- Letterboxd #3952
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3651
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4236
- Metacritic Critics #2663
- Metacritic Audience #3248
- Criticker #2551
- Kinopoisk #3193
- AlloCiné #3860
- Trakt #2998
Every rating
40–76
out of 100
For generations, an underground city has sustained humanity, but its massive generator is failing and supplies are running out. Two teenagers discover fragments of an ancient message they believe holds the instructions to escape to the surface world, racing against the city's impending collapse.
Details
- Director
- Gil Kenan
- Writer
- Caroline Thompson
- Based on
- The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
- Studio
- Playtone, Walden Media
- Released
- 7 October 2008
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $55.0M
- Box office
- $17.9M
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