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Dressed to Kill
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1976
- IMDb #2252
- Rotten Tomatoes #1734
- Metacritic #1244
- Letterboxd #1721
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1680
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2259
- Metacritic Critics #1136
- Metacritic Audience #1609
- Criticker #831
- Kinopoisk #3442
- AlloCiné #1532
- Trakt #2782
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A frustrated New York housewife has a brief affair and is subsequently murdered in an elevator by a mysterious blonde woman with a straight razor. A high-priced call girl who witnessed the killer becomes the next target. She teams up with the victim's son to uncover the identity of the psychotic killer, using herself as bait.
Details
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Writer
- Brian De Palma
- Studio
- Filmways Pictures, Cinema 77 Films
- Released
- 25 July 1980
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.5M
- Box office
- $31.9M
- Awards
- 1 win, 8 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 9 →1 win from 9 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Golden Globe Award 1980 | New Star of the Year – Actress | Nancy Allen | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 1980 | Worst Actress | Nancy Allen | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 1980 | Worst Actor | Michael Caine | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 1980 | Worst Director | Brian De Palma | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 1980 | Best Director | Brian De Palma | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 1980 | Best Horror Film | Nominee | |
| Saturn Awards 1980 | Best Actress | Angie Dickinson | Winner |
| Saturn Awards 1980 | Best Music | Pino Donaggio | Nominee |
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9 awards — Dressed to Kill
×| New Star of the Year – Actress | Nancy Allen | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Angie Dickinson | Winner |
| Best Director | Brian De Palma | Nominee |
| Best Horror Film | Nominee | |
| Best Music | Pino Donaggio | Nominee |
| Worst Actor | Michael Caine | Nominee |
| Worst Actress | Nancy Allen | Nominee |
| Worst Director | Brian De Palma | Nominee |
| Worst Actress | Nancy Allen | Nominee |