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The Living Daylights
1987
· Movie
· 130 min
C
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2823
- IMDb #2869
- Google retired #1972
- Rotten Tomatoes #2399
- Metacritic #2460
- Letterboxd #2771
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2426
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2895
- Metacritic Critics #2576
- Metacritic Audience #2347
- Criticker #2106
- Douban #1398
- Kinopoisk #3292
- AlloCiné #2905
- Trakt #3227
Every rating
45–86
out of 100
A intelligence agent is assigned to help a key Soviet defector escape to the West. The mission quickly becomes complicated when he realizes the situation is not what it seems, uncovering a complex web of arms dealing and double-crosses. He must follow a trail of clues across international borders to prevent a massive escalation of global tensions.
Details
- Director
- John Glen
- Writers
- Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum
- Based on
- The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
- Studio
- EON Productions, United Artists
- Released
- 29 June 1987
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $191.2M
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