The Cannonball Run
1981
· Movie
· 95 min
D
MEANRANK
56/100
Every rating
28–88
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 28, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 28, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A diverse group of eccentric competitors enter an illegal, secret cross-country road race from Connecticut to California. The participants, including a Ferrari-driving playboy, a pair of good ol' boys in an ambulance, and a team of beautiful women in a sports car, employ every trick and scheme imaginable to outmaneuver each other and the police to win the grand prize.
Details
- Director
- Hal Needham
- Writer
- Brock Yates
- Released
- 19 June 1981
- Country
- United States, Hong Kong
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $18.0M
- Box office
- $72.2M
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