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Life
2017
· Movie
· 104 min
C
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3609
- IMDb #3071
- Google retired #2926
- Rotten Tomatoes #3039
- Metacritic #3176
- Letterboxd #3700
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2904
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3694
- Metacritic Critics #2990
- Metacritic Audience #3314
- Criticker #2613
- Douban #2083
- Kinopoisk #3835
- AlloCiné #2029
- Trakt #2856
Every rating
39–76
out of 100
The crew of the International Space Station successfully retrieves a probe from Mars containing a soil sample. They discover a single-celled organism within it—the first proof of extraterrestrial life. As they study it, the organism grows rapidly and proves to be highly intelligent and dangerously hostile, threatening them and all life on Earth.
Details
- Director
- Daniel Espinosa
- Writers
- Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Skydance Media
- Released
- 22 March 2017
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $58.0M
- Box office
- $100.5M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →0 wins from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| 16th Visual Effects Society Awards 2017 | Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project | Tom Edwards, Chaitanya Kshirsagar, Satish Kuttan, Paresh Dodia for "The ISS" | Nominee |
| 44th Saturn Awards 2017 | Best Science Fiction Film | Life | Nominee |
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16th Visual Effects Society Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project | Tom Edwards, Chaitanya Kshirsagar, Satish Kuttan, Paresh Dodia for "The ISS" | Nominee |
44th Saturn Awards
1 nomination
| Best Science Fiction Film | Life | Nominee |