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The Hitcher
1986
· Movie
· 97 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2555
- IMDb #1778
- Rotten Tomatoes #2535
- Metacritic #3801
- Letterboxd #1727
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3184
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2144
- Metacritic Critics #4707
- Metacritic Audience #1136
- Criticker #1175
- Kinopoisk #1209
- AlloCiné #1601
- Trakt #2485
Every rating
32–88
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 32, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 48, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young man driving cross-country picks up a mysterious hitchhiker. The hitchhiker soon reveals himself to be a psychotic killer who begins a vicious and relentless game of cat and mouse on the open road. The driver finds himself framed for the hitchhiker's crimes and must find a way to stop him before he is caught or killed.
Details
- Director
- Robert Harmon
- Writer
- Eric Red
- Studio
- Feldman/Meeker Productions
- Released
- 17 January 1986
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Box office
- $5.8M
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Awards
3 wins & 1 nomination total
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