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The Cat in the Hat
MEANRANK
44/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5666
- IMDb #5782
- Google retired #2561
- Rotten Tomatoes #4562
- Metacritic #5089
- Letterboxd #4480
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5428
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3458
- Metacritic Critics #4986
- Metacritic Audience #4971
- Criticker #4246
- Douban #2469
- Kinopoisk #5565
- AlloCiné #5525
- Trakt #4920
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 10, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 14, everyone else 50.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two young children are left home alone on a rainy day with nothing to do. Their boredom is abruptly ended by the sudden arrival of a tall, anthropomorphic cat in a hat. The Cat promises fun and games, but his chaotic and destructive antics quickly turn the house upside down, leaving the children in a frantic race to clean up the mess before their mother returns home.
Details
- Director
- Bo Welch
- Writers
- Alec Berg, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer
- Based on
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
- Released
- 21 November 2003
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $109.0M
- Box office
- $133.8M
- Awards
- 6 wins, 15 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| BMI Film Awards 2003 | — | Best Music | Winner |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2003 | — | Worst Actor of the Decade | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2003 | — | Worst Actor | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2003 | — | Worst Supporting Actor | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2003 | — | Worst Supporting Actress | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2003 | — | Worst Picture | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2003 | — | Worst Screenplay | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2003 | — | Worst Screen Couple | Nominee |
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| — | Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing More Than $100 Million Worldwide | Winner |
| — | Most Annoying Non-Human Character | Winner |
| — | Worst Performance by a Child Actor | Winner |
| — | Worst Director | Nominee |
| — | Worst Actor | Nominee |
| — | Worst Fake Accent - Male | Nominee |
| — | Worst Supporting Actor | Nominee |
| — | Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy | Nominee |
| — | Worst Song | Nominee |
| — | Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie (All Concept/No Content) | Winner |
| — | Worst Actor of the Decade | Nominee |
| — | Worst Actor | Nominee |
| — | Worst Supporting Actor | Nominee |
| — | Worst Supporting Actress | Nominee |
| — | Worst Picture | Nominee |
| — | Worst Screenplay | Nominee |
| — | Worst Screen Couple | Nominee |
| — | Worst "Comedy" of Our First 25 Years | Nominee |
| — | Best Music | Winner |
| — | Favorite Movie Actor | Nominee |