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The Bay
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4189
- IMDb #5047
- Rotten Tomatoes #3164
- Metacritic #2272
- Letterboxd #3842
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2415
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4365
- Metacritic Critics #1974
- Metacritic Audience #2904
- Criticker #2939
- Kinopoisk #5227
- AlloCiné #5023
- Trakt #4807
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 36, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 70, everyone else 56.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →During a Fourth of July celebration in a small Chesapeake Bay town, a biological disaster begins to unfold. Told through found footage from various sources—news reports, cell phones, police cameras—the film reveals how a water-borne parasite, mutated by pollution, rapidly infects the population. The authorities are slow to react as the parasite causes horrific symptoms and panic spreads.
Details
- Director
- Barry Levinson
- Writer
- Michael Wallach
- Released
- 13 September 2012
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $1.6M
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