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Harry and the Hendersons
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4054
- IMDb #4458
- Rotten Tomatoes #3609
- Metacritic #3752
- Letterboxd #3881
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3834
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3765
- Metacritic Critics #4155
- Metacritic Audience #2774
- Criticker #3459
- Kinopoisk #3035
- AlloCiné #3043
- Trakt #4077
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 30, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 46, everyone else 63.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A family returning from a camping trip in the Pacific Northwest accidentally hits a large, hairy creature with their car. Believing it to be dead, they strap it to their roof, only to discover it is a Bigfoot and very much alive. The terrified family soon realizes the creature, whom they name Harry, is gentle and friendly. They must now protect him from a determined hunter while hiding him in their suburban home.
Details
- Director
- William Dear
- Writers
- Bill Martin, Ezra D. Rappaport, William Dear
- Released
- 5 June 1987
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $50.0M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 major award won · 1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Academy Award 1988 | Best Makeup | Rick Baker | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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