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The Getaway
1972
· Movie
· 123 min
B
MEANRANK
73/100
Every rating
55–84
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 55, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A recently released ex-con and his wife plan a sophisticated robbery of a bank to repay a debt to a powerful crime lord. The heist goes wrong, and they are forced to go on the run with both the police and double-crossing gangsters hot on their trail. Their flight across the Southwest tests their relationship and their will to survive.
Details
- Director
- Sam Peckinpah
- Writer
- Walter Hill
- Based on
- The Getaway by Jim Thompson
- Released
- 13 December 1972
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $3.4M
- Box office
- $36.7M
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