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Jacob's Ladder
1990
· Movie
· 113 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1498
- IMDb #1257
- Google retired #1897
- Rotten Tomatoes #1836
- Metacritic #1910
- Letterboxd #864
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2698
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1225
- Metacritic Critics #2281
- Metacritic Audience #1389
- Criticker #557
- Douban #1093
- Kinopoisk #1223
- AlloCiné #956
- Trakt #1549
Every rating
62–86
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 62, highest is Google on 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Vietnam War veteran experiences increasingly horrifying and fragmented hallucinations that blur the line between his reality and nightmares. As he searches for answers, he is tormented by demonic visions and learns that his fellow soldiers are suffering from the same terrifying symptoms.
Details
- Director
- Adrian Lyne
- Writer
- Bruce Joel Rubin
- Studio
- Carolco Pictures
- Released
- 2 November 1990
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $26.1M
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Cast
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Awards
3 wins & 1 nomination total
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