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Dolittle
MEANRANK
49/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5387
- IMDb #5130
- Rotten Tomatoes #3977
- Metacritic #4933
- Letterboxd #5589
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5263
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2044
- Metacritic Critics #4880
- Metacritic Audience #4594
- Criticker #4127
- Douban #2583
- Kinopoisk #4157
- AlloCiné #3563
- Trakt #3419
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 15, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 76. Critics average 20, everyone else 55.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A eccentric doctor who can talk to animals lives in seclusion behind the high walls of his estate with a menagerie of creatures. He is forced to set sail on a perilous adventure to a mythical island to find a cure for the gravely ill young queen. He is accompanied on his quest by his animal friends and a reluctant young apprentice.
Details
- Director
- Stephen Gaghan
- Writers
- Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, Stephen Gaghan, Thomas Shepherd
- Based on
- Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
- Released
- 2 January 2020
- Country
- China, United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $175.0M
- Box office
- $251.4M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 10 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 12 →2 wins from 12 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Costume Designers Guild Awards 2021 | Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film | Jenny Beavan | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2021 | Worst Picture | Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Susan Downey | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2021 | Worst Director | Stephen Gaghan | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2021 | Worst Actor | Robert Downey Jr. | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2021 | Worst Screenplay | Stephen Gaghan and Dan Gregor & Doug Mand; Based on the character by Hugh Lofting | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2021 | Worst Screen Combo | Robert Downey Jr. and his utterly unconvincing "Welsh" accent | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2021 | Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel | Winner | |
| Kids' Choice Awards 2021 | Favorite Movie | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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12 awards — Dolittle
×| Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel | Winner | |
| Worst Actor | Robert Downey Jr. | Nominee |
| Worst Director | Stephen Gaghan | Nominee |
| Worst Picture | Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Susan Downey | Nominee |
| Worst Screen Combo | Robert Downey Jr. and his utterly unconvincing "Welsh" accent | Nominee |
| Worst Screenplay | Stephen Gaghan and Dan Gregor & Doug Mand; Based on the character by Hugh Lofting | Nominee |
| Favorite Movie Actor | Robert Downey Jr. | Winner |
| Favorite Movie | Nominee |
| Family Movie of 2020 | Nominee | |
| Male Movie Star of 2020 | Robert Downey Jr. | Nominee |
| Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film | Jenny Beavan | Nominee |
| Best Achievement in Décor/Design of a Comedy or Musical Feature Film | Lee Sandales and Dominic Watkins | Nominee |