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The Shop Around the Corner
MEANRANK
86/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #89
- IMDb #378
- Rotten Tomatoes #98
- Metacritic #102
- Letterboxd #261
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #69
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #466
- Metacritic Critics #54
- Metacritic Audience #552
- Criticker #105
- Kinopoisk #487
- AlloCiné #160
- Trakt #534
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 74, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 99. Critics average 98, everyone else 83.
See the most agreed on films →Two bickering coworkers in a Budapest leather goods store can barely stand each other, unaware that they are each other's anonymous romantic pen pals. They confide their deepest thoughts and feelings through letters, all while their daily interactions are filled with annoyance and competition. Their secret identities lead to a charming and comedic romantic dilemma.
Details
- Director
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Writer
- Samson Raphaelson
- Based on
- Parfumerie by Miklós László
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Released
- 12 January 1940
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $500.0K
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Cast
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Awards
7 wins total
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