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Detroit Rock City
1999
· Movie
· 95 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2763
- IMDb #2734
- Rotten Tomatoes #2688
- Metacritic #3566
- Letterboxd #1995
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3780
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1450
- Metacritic Critics #4664
- Metacritic Audience #697
- Kinopoisk #1026
- AlloCiné #1380
- Trakt #2235
Every rating
33–82
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 33, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 82. Critics average 42, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the four teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters, even rob a convenience store!
Details
- Director
- Adam Rifkin
- Writer
- Carl V. Dupré
- Released
- 13 August 1999
- Country
- United States, Canada
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.5M
- Box office
- $4.2M
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