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The Big Year
2011
· Movie
· 102 min
D
MEANRANK
56/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4544
- IMDb #4229
- Google retired #1919
- Rotten Tomatoes #4241
- Metacritic #3281
- Letterboxd #3690
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4257
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4528
- Metacritic Critics #3125
- Metacritic Audience #3414
- Criticker #2932
- Kinopoisk #3706
- AlloCiné #4937
- Trakt #4427
Every rating
36–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 36, highest is Google on 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
Details
- Director
- David Frankel
- Writer
- Howard Franklin
- Based on
- The Big Year by Mark Obmascik
- Released
- 13 October 2011
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $41.0M
- Box office
- $8.2M
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