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The Golden Child
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4880
- IMDb #4572
- Rotten Tomatoes #4582
- Metacritic #4177
- Letterboxd #4211
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5091
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4196
- Metacritic Critics #4463
- Metacritic Audience #3296
- Criticker #3257
- Kinopoisk #3367
- AlloCiné #4521
- Trakt #3812
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 21, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 29, everyone else 59.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A cynical investigator specializing in missing children is recruited for an impossible task: to find a mystical boy who holds the key to saving the world. His quest takes him from the streets of Los Angeles to the high mountains of Tibet, where he must embrace ancient magic and confront a powerful demonic force. He is a man of logic forced to operate in a world of faith and supernatural danger, challenging everything he believes to be true in order to protect the innocent.
Details
- Director
- Michael Ritchie
- Writer
- Dennis Feldman
- Released
- 12 December 1986
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $79.8M
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Cast
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