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The Pledge
MEANRANK
66/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2980
- IMDb #2918
- Google retired #3478
- Rotten Tomatoes #2605
- Metacritic #1618
- Letterboxd #2983
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2189
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3521
- Metacritic Critics #1382
- Metacritic Audience #2201
- Criticker #1654
- Kinopoisk #2890
- AlloCiné #2379
- Trakt #3840
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 50, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A retiring police detective makes a promise to the mother of a murdered young girl that he will find the killer. He becomes obsessed with the case, staking out a remote area where he believes the killer will strike again. His fixation isolates him and blurs the line between dedication and delusion.
Details
- Director
- Sean Penn
- Writers
- Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski
- Based on
- The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Released
- 19 January 2001
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $35.0M
- Box office
- $29.4M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 2001 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
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