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The Number 23
MEANRANK
57/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4477
- IMDb #3591
- Google retired #1887
- Rotten Tomatoes #4678
- Metacritic #5091
- Letterboxd #4612
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5495
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3611
- Metacritic Audience #3382
- Criticker #3153
- Douban #2135
- Kinopoisk #2206
- AlloCiné #3764
- Trakt #3453
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 7, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 7, everyone else 62.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A man becomes obsessed with a mysterious book he receives, a novel that seems to mirror events from his own life. He is drawn into the book's central theme: the supposed power and curse of the number 23, which he begins to find hidden everywhere. His fixation strains his relationships and his sanity as he descends into a paranoia-fueled quest to uncover the truth behind the number's significance.
Details
- Director
- Joel Schumacher
- Writer
- Fernley Phillips
- Based on
- The Number 23
- Studio
- Firm Films, New Line Cinema, Contrafilm
- Released
- 23 February 2007
- Country
- Germany, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $77.7M
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