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Firestarter
1984
· Movie
· 114 min
D
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4840
- IMDb #4457
- Google retired #3869
- Rotten Tomatoes #3946
- Metacritic #3377
- Letterboxd #4157
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4314
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3896
- Metacritic Audience #3136
- Criticker #2930
- Kinopoisk #3490
- AlloCiné #4568
- Trakt #4258
Every rating
36–67
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 36, highest is Kinopoisk on 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young girl possesses a terrifying pyrokinetic ability: she can start fires with her mind. She and her father are on the run from a secret government agency called The Shop, which wants to capture and weaponize her power. The agency will stop at nothing to retrieve her, forcing her father to protect her and her to use her gift to survive.
Details
- Director
- Mark L. Lester
- Writer
- Stanley Mann
- Based on
- Firestarter by Stephen King
- Studio
- The De Laurentiis Company
- Released
- 11 May 1984
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $17.1M
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