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Time Bandits
MEANRANK
73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1871
- IMDb #2445
- Google retired #1648
- Rotten Tomatoes #1158
- Metacritic #1068
- Letterboxd #2053
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #809
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1959
- Metacritic Critics #763
- Metacritic Audience #2029
- Criticker #1373
- Kinopoisk #3247
- AlloCiné #3441
- Trakt #2733
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 53, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 92. Critics average 86, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young history-obsessed boy is whisked out of his bedroom by a group of time-traveling dwarves. They possess a map of holes in the fabric of the universe and use it to jump through time, looting treasure from different historical eras. Their adventures bring them face-to-face with figures like Napoleon and Agamemnon, all while being pursued by the Supreme Being, from whom they stole the map.
Details
- Director
- Terry Gilliam
- Writers
- Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
- Studio
- Handmade Films
- Released
- 13 July 1981
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $42.4M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (40) →Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| The President's Memorial Award 1982 | The President's Memorial Award | Winner |
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