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Stranger Than Paradise
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #881
- IMDb #1339
- Rotten Tomatoes #176
- Metacritic #843
- Letterboxd #892
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #39
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #804
- Metacritic Critics #362
- Metacritic Audience #2613
- Criticker #399
- Kinopoisk #1049
- AlloCiné #1639
- Trakt #1949
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Lowest is Criticker on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100. Critics average 93, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A detached Hungarian immigrant living in New York City is reluctantly visited by his young cousin from Budapest. After a tense and boring stay, he and his friend decide to take a spontaneous road trip to Cleveland to see her, and then further on to an unpredictable Florida, all while maintaining a veneer of cool indifference amidst the bleak, empty landscapes of America.
Details
- Director
- Jim Jarmusch
- Writer
- Jim Jarmusch
- Based on
- Stranger than Paradise
- Released
- 1 October 1984
- Country
- United States, Germany
- Language
- English, Hungarian, Italian
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $100.0K
- Box office
- $2.4M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Golden Leopard 1984 | Golden Leopard | Winner |
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