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It Happened One Night
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #154
- IMDb #248
- Google retired #919
- Rotten Tomatoes #66
- Metacritic #295
- Letterboxd #243
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #103
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #253
- Metacritic Critics #306
- Metacritic Audience #542
- Criticker #157
- Douban #146
- Kinopoisk #459
- AlloCiné #282
- Trakt #681
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98.
See the most agreed on films →A spoiled heiress runs away from her father to reunite with a reckless aviator. On a bus to New York, she meets a recently fired, cynical newspaper reporter who agrees to help her in exchange for an exclusive story. Their antagonistic journey turns into a romantic comedy as they outwit pursuers and fall in love.
Details
- Director
- Frank Capra
- Writer
- Robert Riskin
- Based on
- a work by Samuel Hopkins Adams
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
- Released
- 22 February 1934
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $325.0K
- Box office
- $4.5M
- Awards
- 5 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →5 wins from 5 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Best Actor 1934 | — | Winner | |
| Best Actress 1934 | — | Winner | |
| Best Adaptation 1934 | — | Winner | |
| Best Director 1934 | — | Winner | |
| Outstanding Production 1934 | — | Winner |
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