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Sorcerer
MEANRANK
80/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #688
- IMDb #773
- Rotten Tomatoes #1283
- Metacritic #1017
- Letterboxd #146
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1684
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1385
- Metacritic Critics #1689
- Metacritic Audience #293
- Criticker #282
- Kinopoisk #1675
- AlloCiné #279
- Trakt #906
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 68, highest is Google on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Four men from different backgrounds, all hiding from their pasts in a squalid South American town, are hired to transport unstable nitroglycerin through 200 miles of treacherous jungle to cap an oil well fire. They must drive two old trucks along crumbling mountain roads, where any jolt could mean instant death.
Details
- Director
- William Friedkin
- Writers
- Walon Green, William Friedkin
- Based on
- The Wages of Fear
- Released
- 24 June 1977
- Country
- United States, Mexico
- Language
- English, Spanish, French, German
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $22.0M
- Box office
- $9.0M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 4 →0 wins from 4 nominations across 1 ceremony
| 50th Academy Awards 1978 | Best Sound | Richard Tyler | Nominee |
| 50th Academy Awards 1978 | Best Sound | Robert Knudson | Nominee |
| 50th Academy Awards 1978 | Best Sound | Robert Glass | Nominee |
| 50th Academy Awards 1978 | Best Sound | Jean-Louis Ducarme | Nominee |
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| Best Sound | Robert Knudson | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Robert Glass | Nominee |
| Best Sound | Jean-Louis Ducarme | Nominee |