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Encino Man
1992
· Movie
· 88 min
D
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4809
- IMDb #4732
- Rotten Tomatoes #4458
- Metacritic #4447
- Letterboxd #4042
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5228
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3622
- Metacritic Critics #4914
- Metacritic Audience #2238
- Criticker #3720
- Kinopoisk #4386
- AlloCiné #3302
- Trakt #4421
Every rating
17–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 17, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 21, everyone else 61.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two high school losers in Encino, California, dig up a frozen caveman in their backyard. They thaw him out and decide to integrate him into modern life, passing him off as an exchange student. The caveman's primitive charm and athletic prowess make him an instant hit, changing their social status.
Details
- Director
- Les Mayfield
- Writers
- George Zaloom, Shawn Schepps
- Released
- 22 May 1992
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $7.0M
- Box office
- $40.7M
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