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The Ring
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3140
- IMDb #1867
- Google retired #2361
- Rotten Tomatoes #3099
- Metacritic #2444
- Letterboxd #2792
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2597
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4117
- Metacritic Critics #2718
- Metacritic Audience #1888
- Criticker #2155
- Douban #2125
- Kinopoisk #1805
- AlloCiné #2839
- Trakt #2293
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 44, highest is Google on 82.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A journalist investigates an urban legend about a mysterious videotape that causes anyone who watches it to die seven days later. Skeptical at first, she watches the tape herself and receives a phone call confirming her fate. She now has one week to unravel the tape's sinister origins and break the curse before her time runs out.
Details
- Director
- Gore Verbinski
- Writers
- Ehren Kruger, Hiroshi Takahashi
- Based on
- Ring
- Released
- 18 October 2002
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $48.0M
- Box office
- $249.3M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| MTV Movie Awards 2003 | Best Movie | Nominee | |
| MTV Movie Awards 2003 | Best Villain | Winner | |
| Teen Choice Awards 2003 | Best Movie – Horror | Winner | |
| Saturn Awards 2002 | Best Movie – Horror | Winner | |
| Saturn Awards 2002 | Best Actress | Winner |
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