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Ladder 49
2004
· Movie
· 115 min
C
MEANRANK
64/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3329
- IMDb #3479
- Rotten Tomatoes #3060
- Metacritic #2906
- Letterboxd #3769
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4280
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1525
- Metacritic Critics #3686
- Metacritic Audience #1275
- Criticker #2712
- Douban #1294
- Kinopoisk #1580
- AlloCiné #3665
- Trakt #3606
Every rating
38–92
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 38, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 44, everyone else 68.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A veteran firefighter becomes trapped inside a massive warehouse fire. As his fellow firefighters risk their lives to save him, the film flashes back through his career, showing his initiation into the firehouse, the bonds he formed with his colleagues, and the impact the dangerous job has had on his family life.
Details
- Director
- Jay Russell
- Writer
- Lewis Colick
- Released
- 1 October 2004
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $100.6M
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