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The Dead Pool
1988
· Movie
· 91 min
D
MEANRANK
57/100
Every rating
37–72
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 37, highest is Metacritic users on 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A San Francisco inspector becomes the target of a deranged killer who is using a celebrity "dead pool" list as a checklist for murder. As public figures on the list are systematically eliminated, the inspector must race to uncover the perpetrator's identity before his own name comes up, all while dealing with the intense media scrutiny that his high-profile cases attract.
Details
- Director
- Buddy Van Horn
- Writers
- Durk Pearson, Sandy Shaw, Steve Sharon
- Based on
- characters in Dirty Harry
- Released
- 13 July 1988
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $37.9M
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