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Newsies
1992
· Movie
· 121 min
C
MEANRANK
64/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3420
- IMDb #2533
- Rotten Tomatoes #2909
- Metacritic #3619
- Letterboxd #2184
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4355
+5 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #899
- Metacritic Critics #3816
- Metacritic Audience #3127
- Kinopoisk #2400
- Trakt #2830
Every rating
39–87
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 39, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 87. Critics average 42, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
Details
- Director
- Kenny Ortega
- Writers
- Bob Tzudiker, Noni White
- Released
- 10 April 1992
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $2.8M
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