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The Son
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3962
- IMDb #3549
- Google retired #3076
- Metacritic #3925
- Letterboxd #4266
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4744
+4 more
- Metacritic Critics #3834
- Metacritic Audience #3765
- Kinopoisk #1767
- AlloCiné #951
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 29, highest is AlloCiné on 78. Critics average 37, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A man's life with his new partner and their baby is disrupted when his ex-wife appears, concerned about their teenage son who has been missing school for months. The troubled boy asks to move in with his father, who is eager to make up for past mistakes. The father strives to help his son navigate a profound crisis, but finds himself unequipped to handle the depth of the adolescent's pain. The family struggles to reconnect as the son's behavior becomes increasingly alarming.
Details
- Director
- Florian Zeller
- Writers
- Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
- Based on
- a work by Florian Zeller
- Released
- 10 November 2022
- Country
- Australia, France, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Box office
- $3.6M
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