The Idiots
1998
· Movie
· 110 min
C
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2959
- IMDb #3008
- Rotten Tomatoes #2014
- Metacritic #3037
- Letterboxd #2021
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2575
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1868
- Metacritic Critics #3633
- Metacritic Audience #1832
- Criticker #1246
- Kinopoisk #2247
- AlloCiné #2727
- Trakt #4472
Every rating
48–78
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 48, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A group of young people embark on a bizarre social experiment: they gather at a commune and deliberately act mentally disabled in public, calling their practice "spazzing." They seek to challenge bourgeois norms and find an "inner idiot." A quiet woman joins them and becomes fascinated by their provocative and increasingly disruptive behavior.
Details
- Director
- Lars von Trier
- Writer
- Lars von Trier
- Released
- 20 May 1998
- Country
- Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden
- Language
- Danish
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $7.2K
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| 11th European Film Awards 1998 | Best Screenwriter | Lars von Trier | Nominee |
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11th European Film Awards
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| Best Screenwriter | Lars von Trier | Nominee |