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Serenity
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1590
- IMDb #549
- Google retired #3615
- Rotten Tomatoes #912
- Metacritic #802
- Letterboxd #1626
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1836
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #413
- Metacritic Critics #1107
- Metacritic Audience #496
- Criticker #614
- Douban #1486
- Kinopoisk #1817
- AlloCiné #3176
- Trakt #331
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Google on 62, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 91.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The crew of a small smuggling spaceship, led by a renegade captain, takes on two passengers with a mysterious secret. They find themselves pursued by an unstoppable government agent known as an Operative, forcing them to confront the dark truth about one of their own and a terrible planetary experiment.
Details
- Director
- Joss Whedon
- Writer
- Joss Whedon
- Based on
- a work by Joss Whedon
- Released
- 25 September 2005
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Mandarin
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $39.0M
- Box office
- $38.9M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →3 wins from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Hugo Award 2006 | Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form | Joss Whedon | Winner |
| Saturn Award 2006 | Best Supporting Actress | Summer Glau | Winner |
| Nebula Award 2005 | Best Script | Joss Whedon | Winner |
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| Best Script | Joss Whedon | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Summer Glau | Winner |