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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
· Movie
· 109 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2633
- IMDb #2815
- Google retired #3013
- Rotten Tomatoes #2937
- Metacritic #2111
- Letterboxd #2543
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3306
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2964
- Metacritic Critics #2141
- Metacritic Audience #2118
- Douban #558
- Kinopoisk #2336
- AlloCiné #3555
- Trakt #2023
Every rating
58–81
out of 100
Seconds before Earth is destroyed to make way for a galactic freeway, an unassuming Englishman is rescued by his alien best friend. They escape aboard a stolen spaceship with a two-headed galactic president and a depressed robot. Together, they travel the universe, seeking the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Details
- Director
- Garth Jennings
- Writers
- Douglas Adams, Karey Kirkpatrick
- Based on
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Released
- 28 April 2005
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $104.5M
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Awards
1 win & 10 nominations total
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