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The Long Goodbye
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #799
- IMDb #1150
- Rotten Tomatoes #609
- Metacritic #424
- Letterboxd #242
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #685
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1029
- Metacritic Critics #304
- Metacritic Audience #1116
- Criticker #277
- Douban #1097
- Kinopoisk #2101
- AlloCiné #1342
- Trakt #1648
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 69, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 93. Critics average 90, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A private detective's easy-going friend is accused of murdering his wife and then disappears. The detective doesn't believe his friend is guilty and starts his own investigation. His search leads him through a sun-drenched, morally ambiguous Los Angeles landscape of lies, betrayal, and a gangster who is also looking for his missing money.
Details
- Director
- Robert Altman
- Writer
- Leigh Brackett
- Based on
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
- Studio
- United Artists, Lion's Gate Films
- Released
- 8 March 1973
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $1.7M
- Box office
- $959.0K
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Best Cinematography 1973 | Best Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond | Winner |
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