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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2247
- IMDb #2902
- Rotten Tomatoes #2112
- Metacritic #2616
- Letterboxd #2981
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2209
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2573
- Metacritic Critics #2680
- Metacritic Audience #2514
- Kinopoisk #2225
- AlloCiné #2188
- Trakt #2371
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 58, highest is Google on 84.
See the most agreed on films →Admiral James T. Kirk learns that his late friend Spock's essence may still be alive. Defying Starfleet orders, he and his crew steal the decommissioned USS Enterprise to return to the Genesis Planet, where Spock's body was laid to rest. They must race against time and a vengeful Klingon commander who wants the secrets of the planet's powerful Genesis Device.
Details
- Director
- Leonard Nimoy
- Writer
- Harve Bennett
- Based on
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 1 June 1984
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Klingon, Russian, French
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $18.0M
- Box office
- $87.0M
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Cast
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Awards
1 win & 10 nominations total
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