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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
· Movie
· 115 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1240
- IMDb #1289
- Google retired #1983
- Rotten Tomatoes #846
- Metacritic #1054
- Letterboxd #708
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #668
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1461
- Metacritic Critics #1059
- Metacritic Audience #1242
- Criticker #505
- Douban #1986
- Kinopoisk #2764
- AlloCiné #1627
- Trakt #1585
Every rating
64–93
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 64, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 93.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In San Francisco, a health inspector discovers that people are being emotionlessly replaced by perfect physical duplicates grown from plant-like pods. The alien duplicates are part of a silent invasion, and he must fight to stay awake and human long enough to escape the city and warn the world.
Details
- Director
- Philip Kaufman
- Writer
- W.D. Richter
- Based on
- The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
- Studio
- United Artists
- Released
- 20 December 1978
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $3.5M
- Box office
- $24.9M
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Cast
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Awards
3 wins & 11 nominations total
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