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The Skeleton Key
MEANRANK
62/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3736
- IMDb #3389
- Google retired #1883
- Rotten Tomatoes #3848
- Metacritic #3347
- Letterboxd #3465
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4373
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3486
- Metacritic Critics #3683
- Metacritic Audience #2546
- Criticker #2787
- Douban #613
- Kinopoisk #1600
- AlloCiné #3628
- Trakt #2977
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 37, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 42, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A hospice nurse takes a job at a remote Louisiana plantation house to care for an elderly man. The house is steeped in the history of Hoodoo magic and superstition. She finds a skeleton key that unlocks every door but also reveals the home's dark secrets. She becomes convinced that a supernatural force is at work, threatening both her and her patients, and investigates the home's past.
Details
- Director
- Iain Softley
- Writer
- Ehren Kruger
- Released
- 29 July 2005
- Country
- Germany, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $43.0M
- Box office
- $94.0M
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