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Night on Earth
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #995
- IMDb #908
- Rotten Tomatoes #1214
- Metacritic #1560
- Letterboxd #613
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2290
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #459
- Metacritic Critics #1677
- Metacritic Audience #1467
- Criticker #350
- Kinopoisk #446
- AlloCiné #1319
- Trakt #1122
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 67, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 91.
See the most agreed on films →Over the course of one night, the film presents five separate taxi cab rides occurring in five different cities across the world simultaneously. In Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki, drivers and their fares from all walks of life engage in conversations. These brief, random encounters range from the hilarious to the profound, creating a panoramic snapshot of human connection and isolation under the night sky.
Details
- Director
- Jim Jarmusch
- Writer
- Jim Jarmusch
- Studio
- JVC, Locus Solus Entertainment
- Released
- 12 December 1991
- Country
- United States, Japan
- Language
- English, French, Italian, Finnish, German
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.5M
- Box office
- $2.0M
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Cast
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Awards
1 win & 1 nomination total
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