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Devil in a Blue Dress
MEANRANK
72/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 92. Critics average 85, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
Details
- Director
- Carl Franklin
- Writer
- Carl Franklin
- Released
- 29 September 1995
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $27.0M
- Box office
- $16.1M
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