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Mighty Joe Young
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4148
- IMDb #5049
- Rotten Tomatoes #3852
- Letterboxd #4374
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3575
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4498
+5 more
- Metacritic Critics #3358
- Criticker #1787
- Kinopoisk #3587
- AlloCiné #3896
- Trakt #4457
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 41, highest is Google on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A renowned zoologist travels to Africa and discovers a miraculous, enormous gorilla being protected by a young woman who raised him. When poachers threaten the gentle giant's life, the zoologist helps bring them both to a California wildlife preserve for safety. Their peace is short-lived, as the same poachers track them down, forcing the massive ape to defend his new home and his human friend.
Details
- Director
- Ron Underwood
- Writers
- Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
- Based on
- Mighty Joe Young
- Released
- 25 December 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $90.0M
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Cast
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