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La Femme Nikita
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1743
- IMDb #1750
- Rotten Tomatoes #927
- Metacritic #1998
- Letterboxd #1760
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1170
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1227
- Metacritic Critics #1982
- Metacritic Audience #2192
- Criticker #896
- Douban #1268
- Kinopoisk #2074
- AlloCiné #1382
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Lowest is Criticker on 59, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89.
See the most agreed on films →A violent and reckless drug addict is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in prison. Instead of prison, she is taken by a secret government agency and offered a choice: be trained as an assassin or be executed. She undergoes a brutal transformation into a sleek, professional killer, but her emotional humanity threatens to resurface during her deadly assignments.
Details
- Director
- Luc Besson
- Writer
- Luc Besson
- Released
- 21 February 1990
- Country
- France, Italy
- Language
- French, Italian, English
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Box office
- $5.0M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| 16th César Awards 1991 | Best Actress | Anne Parillaud | Nominee |
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