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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3102
- IMDb #4004
- Rotten Tomatoes #2862
- Metacritic #1932
- Letterboxd #3127
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2434
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3839
- Metacritic Audience #2739
- Kinopoisk #3522
- AlloCiné #2959
- Trakt #3554
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 53, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Three intelligent apes from a future Earth escape the planet's destruction by using a salvaged human spaceship to travel back in time to contemporary Los Angeles. Initially treated as curiosities, they are welcomed by human society. However, fear and paranoia grow among government officials when the apes' true origins and a prophecy about mankind's future are revealed, putting their lives in grave danger.
Details
- Director
- Don Taylor
- Writer
- Paul Dehn
- Based on
- Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
- Studio
- APJAC Productions, 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 20 May 1971
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- G
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $12.3M
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