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Defiance
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2558
- IMDb #1938
- Google retired #466
- Rotten Tomatoes #2791
- Metacritic #2458
- Letterboxd #2629
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3407
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2385
- Metacritic Critics #2639
- Metacritic Audience #2151
- Criticker #1835
- Douban #1581
- Kinopoisk #3231
- AlloCiné #1517
- Trakt #2121
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 48, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 58, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Based on a true story, three Jewish brothers escape Nazi-occupied Poland and take refuge in the dense forests of Belarus. They begin a desperate fight for survival and slowly build a community of other Jewish refugees. They must defend their makeshift village from the harsh winter and frequent attacks by German soldiers.
Details
- Director
- Edward Zwick
- Writers
- Clayton Frohman, Edward Zwick
- Released
- 31 December 2008
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $32.0M
- Box office
- $51.2M
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| 81st Academy Awards 2009 | Best Original Score | James Newton Howard | Nominee |
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 2008 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
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×| Best Original Score | James Newton Howard | Nominee |
| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |