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Lord of the Flies
1990
· Movie
· 91 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4192
- IMDb #3775
- Google retired #3501
- Rotten Tomatoes #3606
- Letterboxd #3950
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3736
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3893
- Metacritic Critics #3540
- Criticker #1330
- Kinopoisk #2686
- AlloCiné #4184
- Trakt #3871
Every rating
49–70
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 49, highest is Kinopoisk on 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A group of young boys becomes stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash. Without any adult supervision, they attempt to form their own society. Initially, they cooperate, but order quickly breaks down as fear and the desire for power take over, dividing the boys into rival tribes and leading to violence and savagery.
Details
- Director
- Harry Hook
- Writer
- Jay Presson Allen
- Based on
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Released
- 16 March 1990
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $14.0M
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