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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
· Movie
· 155 min
C
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3018
- IMDb #3252
- Google retired #565
- Rotten Tomatoes #3277
- Metacritic #3108
- Letterboxd #2991
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3824
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2999
- Metacritic Critics #2854
- Metacritic Audience #3458
- Kinopoisk #4230
- AlloCiné #2073
- Trakt #3646
Every rating
50–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 50, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 53, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Northern journalist travels to Savannah, Georgia, to cover a high-society Christmas party. His story takes a dramatic turn when the city's most charismatic antiques dealer is accused of murdering his volatile young lover. The reporter stays in town to cover the trial, becoming immersed in the city's eccentric culture and the complex details of the case.
Details
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Writer
- John Lee Hancock
- Based on
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
- Released
- 21 November 1997
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 155 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $35.0M
- Box office
- $25.1M
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