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The Big Sleep
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #483
- IMDb #457
- Rotten Tomatoes #208
- Metacritic #507
- Letterboxd #676
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #327
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #442
- Metacritic Critics #349
- Metacritic Audience #1287
- Criticker #190
- Kinopoisk #1668
- AlloCiné #995
- Trakt #1106
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 71, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 91, everyone else 79.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A private detective is hired by a wealthy general to handle the blackmail of his wild younger daughter. The investigation quickly becomes complex, involving the general's older daughter, a missing chauffeur, pornography, and murder. The detective navigates a tangled web of lies and deception in Los Angeles's underworld, where everyone has a secret.
Details
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Writers
- Howard Hawks, Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, William Faulkner
- Based on
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 22 August 1946
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $250.0K
- Box office
- $10.7M
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Cast
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Awards
2 wins total
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