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Tropic Thunder
2008
· Movie
· 107 min
B
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2078
- IMDb #1860
- Google retired #654
- Rotten Tomatoes #1916
- Metacritic #1221
- Letterboxd #1647
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1816
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2460
- Metacritic Critics #1364
- Metacritic Audience #1013
- Criticker #1978
- Douban #1740
- Kinopoisk #3044
- AlloCiné #2836
- Trakt #1991
Every rating
46–92
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 46, highest is Google on 92.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A group of self-absorbed actors shooting a big-budget war film in the jungle are dropped into the middle of a real guerrilla conflict. They believe the intense fighting is part of the movie, and must use their mediocre acting skills to survive the very real danger they are in.
Details
- Director
- Ben Stiller
- Writers
- Ben Stiller, Etan Cohen, Justin Theroux
- Studio
- DreamWorks Pictures, Red Hour, Goldcrest Pictures, International Film Production Stella-del-Sud Second
- Released
- 9 August 2008
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
- Language
- English, Mandarin
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $92.0M
- Box office
- $195.7M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| 81st Academy Awards 2009 | Best Supporting Actor | Robert Downey Jr. | Nominee |
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81st Academy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Supporting Actor | Robert Downey Jr. | Nominee |