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The Happening
2008
· Movie
· 90 min
F
MEANRANK
42/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5735
- IMDb #5588
- Google retired #3816
- Rotten Tomatoes #5030
- Metacritic #4992
- Letterboxd #5650
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5198
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5059
- Metacritic Critics #4577
- Metacritic Audience #5053
- Criticker #4045
- Douban #2439
- Kinopoisk #4384
- AlloCiné #4973
- Trakt #5090
Every rating
17–63
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 17, highest is Kinopoisk on 63. Critics average 26, everyone else 45.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister?
Details
- Director
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Writer
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Released
- 11 June 2008
- Country
- United States, India
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $163.4M
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