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Courage Under Fire
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2547
- IMDb #3206
- Rotten Tomatoes #1981
- Metacritic #1429
- Letterboxd #3139
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1492
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2916
- Metacritic Critics #888
- Metacritic Audience #2737
- Criticker #2184
- Kinopoisk #2763
- AlloCiné #4110
- Trakt #3061
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 44, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 82, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A U.S. Army officer, haunted by a friendly-fire incident, is assigned to investigate a female helicopter pilot for a posthumous Medal of Honor. He interviews the soldiers she rescued, but he gets conflicting accounts of the events surrounding her death. His investigation becomes a quest for the truth, revealing the fog of war and the complexities of heroism, while also forcing him to confront his own past mistakes.
Details
- Director
- Edward Zwick
- Writer
- Patrick Sheane Duncan
- Released
- 4 July 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Arabic
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $46.0M
- Box office
- $100.9M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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| Chicago Film Critics Association Award 1997 | Best Actor | Nominee |
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