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The Lost Boys
1987
· Movie
· 97 min
B
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2040
- IMDb #1680
- Google retired #420
- Rotten Tomatoes #1609
- Metacritic #1789
- Letterboxd #1557
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2417
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1078
- Metacritic Critics #2191
- Metacritic Audience #1221
- Criticker #1609
- Douban #2186
- Kinopoisk #3586
- AlloCiné #3000
- Trakt #1275
Every rating
50–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 50, highest is Google on 94.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two brothers move with their mother to a California town that is secretly plagued by a gang of teenage vampires. The younger brother falls in with the dangerous group, and the older brother must team up with a pair of young vampire hunters to save him before he is permanently turned into a creature of the night.
Details
- Director
- Joel Schumacher
- Writers
- James Jeremias, Jan Fischer, Jeffrey Boam
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 31 July 1987
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $8.5M
- Box office
- $32.2M
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Awards
3 wins & 5 nominations total
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