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Oslo, August 31st
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #581
- IMDb #951
- Rotten Tomatoes #621
- Metacritic #459
- Letterboxd #394
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #213
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1488
- Metacritic Critics #459
- Metacritic Audience #812
- Kinopoisk #2414
- AlloCiné #973
- Trakt #1148
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 71, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97. Critics average 90, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A recovering drug addict is granted a day's leave from his rehabilitation clinic to interview for a job in Oslo. Over the course of the day, he meets with old friends and family, attempting to reconnect with a life he nearly destroyed. The trip becomes a profound and painful assessment of his past and the possibility of a future.
Details
- Director
- Joachim Trier
- Writers
- Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
- Studio
- Motlys, Don't Look Now
- Released
- 31 August 2011
- Country
- Norway
- Language
- Norwegian
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- NR
- Box office
- $1.5M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Norwegian Film Critics’ Award 2012 | Norwegian Film Critics’ Award | Joachim Trier | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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1 awards — Oslo, August 31st
×| Norwegian Film Critics’ Award | Joachim Trier | Winner |