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Short Circuit
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2895
- IMDb #3191
- Rotten Tomatoes #2826
- Metacritic #2977
- Letterboxd #3135
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3242
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2813
- Metacritic Critics #3455
- Metacritic Audience #2031
- Criticker #2338
- Kinopoisk #950
- AlloCiné #2460
- Trakt #1810
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 42, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 56, everyone else 69.
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Details
- Director
- John Badham
- Writer
- Brent Maddock
- Studio
- TriStar Pictures, PSO, The Turman-Foster Company
- Released
- 9 May 1986
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $40.7M
- Awards
- 1 win, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 4 →1 win from 4 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| BMI Film & TV Awards 1987 | BMI Film Music | David Shire | Winner |
| Saturn Awards 1987 | Best Science Fiction Film | Short Circuit | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 1987 | Best Director | John Badham | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 1987 | Best Special Effects | Syd Mead Eric Allard | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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4 awards — Short Circuit
×| BMI Film Music | David Shire | Winner |
| Best Director | John Badham | Nominee |
| Best Science Fiction Film | Short Circuit | Nominee |
| Best Special Effects | Syd Mead Eric Allard | Nominee |