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The Science of Sleep
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2037
- IMDb #1758
- Rotten Tomatoes #1965
- Metacritic #1250
- Letterboxd #1543
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2679
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1535
- Metacritic Critics #1462
- Metacritic Audience #972
- Criticker #1132
- Douban #967
- Kinopoisk #1946
- AlloCiné #2568
- Trakt #2511
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 56, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 81.
See the most agreed on films →A young man returns to his mother's home in Paris and gets a tedious job. He escapes into his incredibly vivid dreams, where his imagination runs wild. The line between his waking life and dream world begins to blur, especially when he tries to court his charming neighbor using inventions from his whimsical, sleeping mind.
Details
- Director
- Michel Gondry
- Writer
- Michel Gondry
- Studio
- Partizan Films, Gaumont, France 3 Cinéma, Mikado Film
- Released
- 25 June 2006
- Country
- France, Italy
- Language
- French, English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Box office
- $9.5M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →2 major awards won · 2 wins from 2 nominations across 1 ceremony
| 19th European Film Awards 2006 | European Film Academy Award For An Artistic Contribution | Stéphane Rozenbaum | Winner |
| 19th European Film Awards 2006 | European Film Academy Award For An Artistic Contribution | Pierre Pell | Winner |
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2 awards — The Science of Sleep
×| European Film Academy Award For An Artistic Contribution | Stéphane Rozenbaum | Winner |
| European Film Academy Award For An Artistic Contribution | Pierre Pell | Winner |