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The Secret in Their Eyes
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1490
- IMDb #153
- Google retired #3422
- Rotten Tomatoes #2809
- Metacritic #413
- Letterboxd #176
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1125
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4521
- Metacritic Critics #685
- Metacritic Audience #255
- Criticker #261
Every rating
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Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 41, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 89. Critics average 84, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A retired legal counselor decides to write a novel about a decades-old unresolved rape and murder case that still haunts him. His investigation into the past reopens the old wound, forcing him to confront the lost love of his life and the brutal killer who may have escaped justice. The story shifts between his past investigation and his present quest for closure.
Details
- Director
- Juan José Campanella
- Writers
- Eduardo Sacheri, Juan José Campanella
- Based on
- The Question in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri
- Released
- 13 August 2009
- Country
- Argentina, Spain
- Language
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $34.0M
- Awards
- 1 win, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 6 →1 major award won · 1 win from 6 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| 82nd Academy Awards 2010 | Best International Feature Film | Winner | |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 2010 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Argentina | Nominee |
| 23rd European Film Awards 2010 | Best Film | Juan J. Campanella | Nominee |
| 23rd European Film Awards 2010 | Best Film | Eduardo Sacheri | Nominee |
| 23rd European Film Awards 2010 | Best Film | Gerardo Herrero | Nominee |
| 23rd European Film Awards 2010 | Best Film | Mariela Besuievsky | Nominee |
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6 awards — The Secret in Their Eyes
×| Best International Feature Film | Winner |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Argentina | Nominee |
| Best Film | Juan J. Campanella | Nominee |
| Best Film | Eduardo Sacheri | Nominee |
| Best Film | Gerardo Herrero | Nominee |
| Best Film | Mariela Besuievsky | Nominee |