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The Rules of the Game
1939
· Movie
· 110 min
A
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #338
- IMDb #495
- Rotten Tomatoes #273
- Metacritic #118
- Letterboxd #501
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #221
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #697
- Metacritic Critics #15
- Metacritic Audience #1143
- Criticker #101
- Kinopoisk #1244
- AlloCiné #952
- Trakt #1435
Every rating
74–99
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 74, highest is Metacritic critics on 99. Critics average 98, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war.
Details
- Director
- Jean Renoir
- Writer
- Jean Renoir
- Released
- 8 July 1939
- Country
- France
- Language
- French, German, English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $8.8M
- Box office
- $273.5K
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Cast
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Awards
2 wins & 1 nomination
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