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The Soloist
2009
· Movie
· 117 min
C
MEANRANK
65/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3266
- IMDb #2958
- Google retired #939
- Rotten Tomatoes #3360
- Metacritic #2562
- Letterboxd #3547
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3498
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3614
- Metacritic Critics #2349
- Metacritic Audience #2931
- Criticker #2465
- Douban #1592
- Kinopoisk #2052
- AlloCiné #2979
- Trakt #3348
Every rating
41–92
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 41, highest is Google on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A journalist struggling for a meaningful story discovers a former cello prodigy playing a two-stringed violin with astonishing skill on the streets of Los Angeles. The man is homeless and battling schizophrenia. The journalist attempts to help him, aiming to get him off the streets and back to music. Their growing friendship becomes a complex story of good intentions clashing with the harsh realities of mental illness and life on the streets.
Details
- Director
- Joe Wright
- Writer
- Susannah Grant
- Released
- 24 April 2009
- Country
- France, United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $38.3M
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