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Eastern Promises
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #929
- IMDb #836
- Google retired #1570
- Rotten Tomatoes #978
- Metacritic #635
- Letterboxd #863
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1112
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1315
- Metacritic Critics #494
- Metacritic Audience #1184
- Criticker #547
- Douban #1066
- Kinopoisk #2641
- AlloCiné #601
- Trakt #1276
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A London midwife becomes entangled with the Russian mafia after a teenage girl dies in childbirth, leaving behind a diary. She seeks to find the baby's family, which leads her to a mysterious and ruthless driver for the crime family. Her investigation puts her in direct opposition to the brutal Vory v Zakone gang.
Details
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Writer
- Steven Knight
- Studio
- Focus Features, BBC Film, Kudos, Serendipity Point Films
- Released
- 14 September 2007
- Country
- Canada, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English, Russian, Turkish, Urdu
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $51.5M
- Box office
- $56.1M
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 win from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| 80th Academy Awards 2008 | Best Actor | Viggo Mortensen | Nominee |
| Saturn Award 2007 | Best International Film | Winner |
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×| Best Actor | Viggo Mortensen | Nominee |
| Best International Film | Winner |