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The Ghost and the Darkness
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3164
- IMDb #2674
- Google retired #1547
- Rotten Tomatoes #2907
- Metacritic #3310
- Letterboxd #2852
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3779
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2128
- Metacritic Critics #3796
- Metacritic Audience #2241
- Criticker #2111
- Kinopoisk #1068
- AlloCiné #3246
- Trakt #2773
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 45, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 48, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An Irish engineer is hired to build a bridge in 19th-century East Africa. His project is threatened when two relentless lions begin attacking the workers. These are not ordinary predators but seemingly intelligent and malevolent creatures, earning fearsome names from the local population. The engineer partners with a seasoned hunter to stop the unprecedented killings, facing a brutal force of nature that stalks them without fear.
Details
- Director
- Stephen Hopkins
- Writer
- William Goldman
- Released
- 11 October 1996
- Country
- Germany, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $38.6M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 major award won · 1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| 69th Academy Awards 1997 | Best Sound Editing | Bruce Stambler | Winner |
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