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Waking Life
2001
· Movie
· 99 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #163
- IMDb #130
- Rotten Tomatoes #170
- Metacritic #60
- Letterboxd #137
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #236
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #124
- Metacritic Critics #39
- Metacritic Audience #127
- Criticker #55
- Kinopoisk #95
- AlloCiné #398
- Trakt #187
Every rating
62–90
out of 100
A young man floats through a series of interconnected dreams, each one bringing him into conversation with a different person. These encounters are philosophical discussions covering topics like free will, existentialism, dreams, and the nature of reality. He struggles to determine if he is actually awake or forever trapped in this perpetual, lucid dream state.
Details
- Director
- Richard Linklater
- Writer
- Richard Linklater
- Released
- 19 October 2001
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $3.2M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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| Critics' Choice Movie Award 2001 | Best Animated Feature | Nominee |
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