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The Big Blue
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1814
- IMDb #1132
- Rotten Tomatoes #1843
- Metacritic #4220
- Letterboxd #1160
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3248
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #250
- Metacritic Audience #3120
- Criticker #665
- Douban #252
- Kinopoisk #646
- AlloCiné #1072
- Trakt #1116
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 35, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 93. Critics average 48, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The story of a lifelong rivalry and friendship between two world-class free divers. One is a carefree Sicilian, the other a brooding Frenchman. They constantly compete to see who can dive the deepest into the ocean on a single breath of air, pushing the limits of human endurance in a sport that is as beautiful as it is dangerous.
Details
- Director
- Luc Besson
- Writers
- Jacques Mayol, Luc Besson, Marc Perrier, Marilyn Goldin, Robert Garland
- Studio
- Gaumont, Les Films du Loup
- Released
- 10 May 1988
- Country
- France
- Language
- French, English, Italian
- Runtime
- 168 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $13.5M
- Box office
- $4.0M
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Awards
3 wins & 6 nominations total
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