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The Men Who Stare at Goats
2009
· Movie
· 94 min
D
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4244
- IMDb #4114
- Rotten Tomatoes #3993
- Metacritic #3409
- Letterboxd #3780
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3749
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4607
- Metacritic Critics #3014
- Metacritic Audience #3813
- Douban #2048
- Kinopoisk #5010
- AlloCiné #4415
- Trakt #4523
Every rating
39–76
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 39, highest is Google on 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A journalist investigating a story about a former Army Special Forces operator stumbles upon a secret U.S. military unit. This unit was established to develop soldiers with psychic powers who could read the enemy's thoughts, pass through walls, and even kill a goat by staring at it. He follows his source into the Iraqi desert to find the truth behind the bizarre program and its potential reactivation.
Details
- Director
- Grant Heslov
- Writer
- Peter Straughan
- Based on
- The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
- Studio
- Ruby Films, BBC Film, Smokehouse Pictures, Overture Films
- Released
- 17 October 2009
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $24.0M
- Box office
- $68.7M
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