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Rock Star
2001
· Movie
· 105 min
C
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3824
- IMDb #3997
- Google retired #257
- Rotten Tomatoes #3367
- Metacritic #3685
- Letterboxd #3957
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3653
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3436
- Metacritic Critics #3021
- Metacritic Audience #4336
- Criticker #3180
- Kinopoisk #1680
- AlloCiné #3298
- Trakt #3355
Every rating
33–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 33, highest is Google on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The lead singer of a tribute band for his favorite heavy metal group, Steel Dragon, is living his dream of covering their songs. When the actual band fires their lead singer, they unexpectedly ask him to take over. He is thrust into the rock star lifestyle of fame, excess, and adulation, but soon discovers the reality behind the fantasy is hollow.
Details
- Director
- Stephen Herek
- Writer
- John Stockwell
- Studio
- Metal Productions Inc., Bel Air Entertainment, Maysville Pictures, Robert Lawrence Productions
- Released
- 4 September 2001
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $57.0M
- Box office
- $19.3M
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