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MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2003
- IMDb #2469
- Rotten Tomatoes #1260
- Metacritic #1437
- Letterboxd #2376
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #427
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2413
- Metacritic Critics #965
- Metacritic Audience #2614
- Criticker #2008
- Kinopoisk #2312
- AlloCiné #3704
- Trakt #2497
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 46, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 95. Critics average 86, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A kind-hearted temp agency owner is recruited by the Secret Service because he is a dead ringer for the President. When the President suffers a stroke, his corrupt Chief of Staff installs the lookalike as a puppet to maintain power. The impersonator slowly begins to actually care about governing, implementing his own ideals and falling for the First Lady.
Details
- Director
- Ivan Reitman
- Writer
- Gary Ross
- Released
- 7 May 1993
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $28.0M
- Box office
- $92.0M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 8 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Academy Awards 1993 | Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Gary Ross | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1993 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominee | |
| Golden Globe Awards 1993 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Kevin Kline | Nominee |
| Writers Guild of America Awards 1993 | Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Gary Ross | Nominee |
| ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards 1993 | Top Box Office Films | James Newton Howard | Nominee |
| American Comedy Awards 1993 | Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Kevin Kline | Nominee |
| American Comedy Awards 1993 | Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Charles Grodin | Nominee |
| Political Film Society Awards 1993 | Democracy | Nominee |
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8 awards — Dave
×| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Kevin Kline | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Gary Ross | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen | Gary Ross | Nominee |
| Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Kevin Kline | Nominee |
| Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Charles Grodin | Nominee |
| Top Box Office Films | James Newton Howard | Nominee |
| Democracy | Nominee |