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Paris, Texas
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #203
- IMDb #242
- Google retired #1131
- Rotten Tomatoes #170
- Metacritic #694
- Letterboxd #76
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #431
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #263
- Metacritic Critics #658
- Metacritic Audience #1081
- Criticker #53
- Douban #365
- Kinopoisk #468
- AlloCiné #242
- Trakt #253
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic users on 76, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 95.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A man wanders out of the Texas desert after being missing for four years, mute and disconnected from the world. He is found by his brother, who helps him slowly reconnect with reality and his past. He begins a gradual journey to find his young son, who is being raised by his brother, and his estranged wife. His quest is a quiet, painful process of piecing together the memories of the family he lost and seeking a form of reconciliation.
Details
- Director
- Wim Wenders
- Writer
- Sam Shepard
- Studio
- Road Movies, Argos films, WDR, Channel Four Films
- Released
- 16 July 1984
- Country
- United Kingdom, Germany, France
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.8M
- Box office
- $2.2M
- Awards
- 8 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (17) →
Awards & nominations
See all 14 →3 major awards won · 8 wins from 14 nominations across 9 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 1984 | Palme d'Or | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 1984 | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 1984 | FIPRESCI Prize | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| César Awards 1985 | Best Foreign Film | Wim Wenders | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1985 | Best Foreign Film | Wim Wenders | Nominee |
| Bodil Awards 1985 | Best European Film | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| British Academy Film Awards 1985 | Best Score | Ry Cooder | Nominee |
| British Academy Film Awards 1985 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Sam Shepard | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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14 awards — Paris, Texas
×| FIPRESCI Prize | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| Palme d'Or | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| Best Foreign Film | Wim Wenders | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Film | Wim Wenders | Nominee |
| Best Direction | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Sam Shepard | Nominee |
| Best Film | Chris Sievernich [ de ] and Anatole Dauman | Nominee |
| Best Score | Ry Cooder | Nominee |
| Best European Film | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| Best Fiction Film in Silver | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| Best Film | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| Top Ten Films | Wim Wenders | Winner |
| Best Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film | Hunter Carson | Nominee |