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The Devil's Advocate
1997
· Movie
· 144 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1496
- IMDb #992
- Google retired #650
- Rotten Tomatoes #2218
- Metacritic #2035
- Letterboxd #1612
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3061
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1633
- Metacritic Critics #2481
- Metacritic Audience #1351
- Criticker #1271
- Douban #352
- Kinopoisk #110
- AlloCiné #842
- Trakt #597
Every rating
54–92
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 54, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 62, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A brilliant young Florida lawyer is recruited by a powerful New York law firm. He is offered immense wealth and success, but the cases he is assigned test his moral compass. He begins to suspect his charismatic boss may have a sinister, supernatural influence over the firm and its clients.
Details
- Director
- Taylor Hackford
- Writers
- Jonathan Lemkin, Tony Gilroy
- Based on
- a work by Andrew Neiderman
- Released
- 17 October 1997
- Country
- Germany, United States
- Language
- English, German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish
- Runtime
- 144 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $57.0M
- Box office
- $153.0M
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Awards
2 wins & 7 nominations total
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