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Locke
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1774
- IMDb #1929
- Google retired #2595
- Rotten Tomatoes #1480
- Metacritic #569
- Letterboxd #1856
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #873
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2404
- Metacritic Critics #492
- Metacritic Audience #1024
- Criticker #1147
- Douban #973
- Kinopoisk #2947
- AlloCiné #3418
- Trakt #2939
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 56, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 91. Critics average 87, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A successful construction manager receives a phone call that threatens to unravel his perfectly ordered life. Over the course of a tense, real-time drive from Birmingham to London, he makes a series of difficult phone calls from his car. He must manage a crumbling professional situation and confront the personal consequences of his past actions, all while trying to keep his life from complete collapse.
Details
- Director
- Steven Knight
- Writer
- Steven Knight
- Studio
- IM Global, Shoebox Films
- Released
- 10 April 2014
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $4.6M
- Awards
- 1 win, 3 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| 27th European Film Awards 2014 | Best Editor | Justine Wright | Winner |
| 27th European Film Awards 2014 | Best Actor | Tom Hardy | Nominee |
| 27th European Film Awards 2014 | Best Director | Steven Knight | Nominee |
| 27th European Film Awards 2014 | Best Screenwriter | Steven Knight | Nominee |
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| Best Actor | Tom Hardy | Nominee |
| Best Director | Steven Knight | Nominee |
| Best Screenwriter | Steven Knight | Nominee |