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The Good Son
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4165
- IMDb #3743
- Google retired #1649
- Rotten Tomatoes #4284
- Letterboxd #3618
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4903
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3754
- Metacritic Critics #3910
- Criticker #2910
- Kinopoisk #1356
- AlloCiné #2230
- Trakt #3064
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 26, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 36, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young boy goes to stay with his aunt, uncle, and cousin after the death of his mother. He quickly bonds with his charismatic cousin, but soon witnesses his increasingly disturbing and violent behavior. He realizes his cousin is a malicious sociopath, but the adults dismiss his claims as jealousy or grief, leaving him alone to confront the danger.
Details
- Director
- Joseph Ruben
- Writer
- Ian McEwan
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 24 September 1993
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $17.0M
- Box office
- $60.6M
- Awards
- 1 win, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →1 win from 3 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| MTV Movie Awards 1993 | Best Villain | Macaulay Culkin | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 1993 | Best Horror Film | The Good Son | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 1993 | Best Performance by a Younger Actor | Elijah Wood | Winner |
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| Best Horror Film | The Good Son | Nominee |
| Best Villain | Macaulay Culkin | Nominee |