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King Kong Lives
1986
· Movie
· 105 min
F
MEANRANK
38/100
Every rating
17–61
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 17, highest is Kinopoisk on 61.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a giant female ape is captured to serve as a source for a blood transfusion. When Kong awakens following his heart transplant, he senses the nearby presence of the female ape and the two escape to wreak havoc together.
Details
- Director
- John Guillermin
- Writers
- Ronald Shusett, Steven Pressfield
- Studio
- DEG
- Released
- 16 December 1986
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $4.7M