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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2016
· Movie
· 101 min
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #470
- IMDb #574
- Google retired #673
- Rotten Tomatoes #163
- Metacritic #483
- Letterboxd #471
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #162
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #435
- Metacritic Critics #634
- Metacritic Audience #510
- Criticker #496
- Douban #648
- Kinopoisk #1717
- AlloCiné #1041
- Trakt #463
Every rating
64–97
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 64, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97.
See the most agreed on films →A rebellious city kid is sent to live with a new foster family on a remote farm in the New Zealand bush. After a tragic event, child welfare services plan to take him away. He and his gruff, unwilling foster uncle flee into the vast wilderness to avoid capture. The mismatched pair must survive the elements and evade a national manhunt led by an obsessive child welfare officer, all while forming an unlikely bond.
Details
- Director
- Taika Waititi
- Writer
- Taika Waititi
- Based on
- Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
- Studio
- Defender Films, Piki Films, Curious Films
- Released
- 22 January 2016
- Country
- New Zealand, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $23.9M
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Awards
24 wins & 26 nominations total
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