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El Mariachi
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2599
- IMDb #2668
- Rotten Tomatoes #1252
- Metacritic #1553
- Letterboxd #2451
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #924
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2023
- Metacritic Audience #2384
- Criticker #1733
- Kinopoisk #2849
- AlloCiné #4314
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 49, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 91. Critics average 82, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A traveling mariachi arrives in a small Mexican town hoping to find work. He is mistaken for a ruthless hitman who carries a guitar case full of weapons. The confusion draws him into a deadly war between two drug cartels, forcing him to use his wits and limited resources to survive the dangerous case of mistaken identity.
Details
- Director
- Robert Rodriguez
- Writer
- Robert Rodriguez
- Studio
- Los Hooligans Productions
- Released
- 22 February 1993
- Country
- United States
- Language
- Spanish, English
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $7.2K
- Box office
- $2.0M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 major award won · 1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic 1993 | Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic | Robert Rodriguez | Winner |
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×| Sundance Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic | Robert Rodriguez | Winner |