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The Russia House
1990
· Movie
· 118 min
C
MEANRANK
61/100
Every rating
50–70
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 50, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
Details
- Director
- Fred Schepisi
- Writer
- Tom Stoppard
- Based on
- a work by John le Carré
- Released
- 21 December 1990
- Country
- United States, Soviet Union
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $21.8M
- Box office
- $23.0M
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