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MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3981
- IMDb #3531
- Rotten Tomatoes #3765
- Metacritic #3515
- Letterboxd #1861
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3818
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4107
- Metacritic Critics #4064
- Metacritic Audience #2244
- Criticker #1769
- Kinopoisk #4111
- AlloCiné #1609
- Trakt #3885
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 43, highest is AlloCiné on 74. Critics average 46, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young police officer is assigned to go undercover within New York City's underground S&M gay subculture to catch a serial killer targeting its members. As he immerses himself deeper into this world to gather clues, the lines between his assigned identity and his own psyche begin to blur, threatening his sense of self and his grip on the case.
Details
- Director
- William Friedkin
- Writer
- William Friedkin
- Based on
- Q5190000 by Gerald Walker
- Released
- 15 February 1980
- Country
- United States, Germany
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $11.0M
- Box office
- $19.8M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Golden Raspberry Awards 1980 | Worst Picture | Jerry Weintraub | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 1980 | Worst Director | William Friedkin | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 1980 | Worst Screenplay | William Friedkin | Nominee |
| Satellite Award 1980 | Best Classic DVD | Nominee | |
| Stinkers Bad Movie Award 1980 | Most Intrusive Musical Score | Jack Nitzsche | Nominee |
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×| Worst Director | William Friedkin | Nominee |
| Worst Picture | Jerry Weintraub | Nominee |
| Worst Screenplay | William Friedkin | Nominee |
| Best Classic DVD | Nominee |
| Most Intrusive Musical Score | Jack Nitzsche | Nominee |