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The Specials
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1744
- IMDb #1370
- Letterboxd #1102
- Kinopoisk #486
- AlloCiné #220
- Trakt #382
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 38, highest is Google on 96. Critics average 38, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
Details
- Directors
- Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
- Writers
- Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
- Studio
- Gaumont, TF1 Films Production, Quad Productions, Ten Films
- Released
- 23 October 2019
- Country
- Belgium, France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (50) →
Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 major award won · 1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| César 2020 | High School Students | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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