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The Running Man
MEANRANK
64/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3300
- IMDb #3096
- Google retired #2243
- Rotten Tomatoes #3118
- Metacritic #3405
- Letterboxd #3497
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3369
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3283
- Metacritic Critics #3914
- Metacritic Audience #2335
- Douban #1879
- Kinopoisk #2229
- AlloCiné #4046
- Trakt #2917
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 45, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 52, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a dystopian game-show future, a framed police officer is forced to become a contestant on the nation's most popular television program. The show pits criminals against professional killers known as Stalkers in a brutal fight for survival, all broadcast for public entertainment. He must use his wits and combat skills to survive the deadly challenges and expose the corrupt system.
Details
- Director
- Paul Michael Glaser
- Writer
- Steven E. de Souza
- Based on
- The Running Man by Stephen King
- Released
- 13 November 1987
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $27.0M
- Box office
- $38.1M
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Cast
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