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Pelé: Birth of a Legend
2016
· Movie
· 107 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2596
- IMDb #2082
- Google retired #42
- Rotten Tomatoes #3669
- Metacritic #3613
- Letterboxd #3072
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4604
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2695
- Metacritic Critics #4347
- Metacritic Audience #1825
- Kinopoisk #38
- AlloCiné #1333
- Trakt #1113
Every rating
33–98
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 33, highest is Google on 98. Critics average 36, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The film chronicles the early life of soccer legend Pelé, from his childhood in the slums of Brazil, where he learned to play with a makeshift ball, to his rise to fame leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory in 1958 at the age of 17. It focuses on his journey and the development of his unique playing style, the "Ginga."
Details
- Directors
- Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
- Writers
- Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
- Released
- 6 May 2016
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $2.3M
- Box office
- $7.9M
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