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The Indian in the Cupboard
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4186
- IMDb #4616
- Rotten Tomatoes #3397
- Letterboxd #4125
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2776
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4510
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- Metacritic Critics #2668
- Criticker #3526
- Kinopoisk #3453
- AlloCiné #4512
- Trakt #3632
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 29, highest is Google on 86.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young boy receives a old cupboard and a small plastic Indian figure for his birthday. He discovers that when he locks the toy in the cupboard, it magically comes to life as a miniature, real person. He must keep his new friend a secret while learning about responsibility and the consequences of his actions.
Details
- Director
- Frank Oz
- Writer
- Melissa Mathison
- Based on
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
- Released
- 14 July 1995
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $45.0M
- Box office
- $35.7M
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