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Lock Up
1989
· Movie
· 109 min
C
MEANRANK
62/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3645
- IMDb #3744
- Rotten Tomatoes #4239
- Metacritic #2973
- Letterboxd #3396
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3972
+5 more
- Metacritic Audience #2411
- Criticker #2842
- Kinopoisk #1602
- AlloCiné #2946
- Trakt #3345
Every rating
37–82
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 37, highest is Google on 82.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A prisoner with only six months left on his sentence is transferred to a brutal, high-security prison run by a sadistic warden. The warden holds a personal grudge and is determined to break the inmate's spirit through any means necessary, forcing him to fight for his survival.
Details
- Director
- John Flynn
- Writers
- Henry Rosenbaum, Jeb Stuart, Richard Smith
- Studio
- Carolco Pictures, White Eagle, Gordon Company
- Released
- 4 August 1989
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $24.0M
- Box office
- $22.1M
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