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The Box
2009
· Movie
· 115 min
F
MEANRANK
49/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5332
- IMDb #5116
- Google retired #3822
- Rotten Tomatoes #4614
- Metacritic #4344
- Letterboxd #4840
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4189
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5062
- Metacritic Critics #3716
- Metacritic Audience #4730
- Douban #2687
- Kinopoisk #4721
- AlloCiné #4818
- Trakt #4853
Every rating
24–61
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 24, highest is Kinopoisk on 61.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A financially struggling couple receives a mysterious wooden box from a disfigured stranger. He makes them a bizarre offer: if they press the button inside the box, they will receive one million dollars in cash, but someone they don’t know will die somewhere in the world. They are given 24 hours to decide, forcing them into an agonizing moral dilemma that has far-reaching and terrifying consequences.
Details
- Director
- Richard Kelly
- Writer
- Richard Kelly
- Based on
- Button, Button by Richard Matheson
- Studio
- MRC, Radar Pictures, Darko Entertainment
- Released
- 29 October 2009
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $33.3M
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