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Phenomenon
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3836
- IMDb #3435
- Google retired #1272
- Rotten Tomatoes #3476
- Metacritic #3498
- Letterboxd #4071
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3870
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3426
- Metacritic Critics #4141
- Metacritic Audience #1991
- Criticker #2888
- Kinopoisk #1252
- AlloCiné #3636
- Trakt #3000
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 36, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 46, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A kind, ordinary small-town mechanic experiences a sudden, blinding light on his birthday and collapses. He wakes up to discover his intellect is growing at an astonishing rate, granting him telekinetic abilities and a genius-level understanding of complex subjects. His miraculous transformation brings him local fame and scrutiny, changing his life and his relationships with everyone around him in profound and unexpected ways.
Details
- Director
- Jon Turteltaub
- Writer
- Gerald Di Pego
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures
- Released
- 5 July 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $32.0M
- Box office
- $152.0M
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