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The Promise
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2736
- IMDb #4325
- Rotten Tomatoes #2363
- Metacritic #3002
- Letterboxd #3257
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3762
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #460
- Metacritic Critics #3507
- Metacritic Audience #1914
- Kinopoisk #1545
- AlloCiné #1020
- Trakt #2524
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 49, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 91. Critics average 50, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Set during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, an Armenian medical student, Chris, an American journalist, and Ana, an Armenian woman raised in Paris. Their personal lives become intertwined with the outbreak of World War I and the beginning of the Armenian Genocide, forcing them to fight for survival.
Details
- Director
- Terry George
- Writers
- Robin Swicord, Terry George
- Released
- 2 December 2016
- Country
- Spain, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $90.0M
- Box office
- $12.4M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 7 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Grammy Awards 2018 | Best Rock Performance | " The Promise " (performed by Chris Cornell ) | Nominee |
| Movieguide Awards 2018 | Best Movie for Mature Audiences | The Promise | Nominee |
| Movieguide Awards 2018 | Faith & Freedom Award for Movies | The Promise | Nominee |
| Movieguide Awards 2018 | Most Inspiring Performance for Movies | Oscar Isaac | Nominee |
| Movieguide Awards 2018 | Most Inspiring Movie of 2017 | The Promise | Nominee |
| Satellite Awards 2018 | Best Original Song | " The Promise " (performed by Chris Cornell ) | Nominee |
| Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2017 | Best Original Song in a Feature Film | " The Promise " (performed by Chris Cornell ) | Nominee |
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7 awards — The Promise
×| Best Rock Performance | " The Promise " (performed by Chris Cornell ) | Nominee |
| Best Movie for Mature Audiences | The Promise | Nominee |
| Faith & Freedom Award for Movies | The Promise | Nominee |
| Most Inspiring Movie of 2017 | The Promise | Nominee |
| Most Inspiring Performance for Movies | Oscar Isaac | Nominee |
| Best Original Song in a Feature Film | " The Promise " (performed by Chris Cornell ) | Nominee |
| Best Original Song | " The Promise " (performed by Chris Cornell ) | Nominee |