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The Game
1997
· Movie
· 129 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1194
- IMDb #669
- Google retired #2333
- Rotten Tomatoes #1568
- Metacritic #1578
- Letterboxd #1004
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2274
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1199
- Metacritic Critics #2185
- Metacritic Audience #745
- Criticker #686
- Douban #1025
- Kinopoisk #86
- AlloCiné #567
- Trakt #429
Every rating
61–84
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 61, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A wealthy, isolated investment banker receives an unusual birthday gift from his brother: participation in a mysterious game. The game slowly begins to consume his life, blurring the lines between reality and a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to destroy him.
Details
- Director
- David Fincher
- Writers
- John Brancato, Michael Ferris
- Released
- 12 September 1997
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Cantonese, German, Spanish, Thai
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $109.4M
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Awards
1 nomination total
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