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Where the Wild Things Are
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2883
- IMDb #2878
- Google retired #3099
- Rotten Tomatoes #2788
- Metacritic #1590
- Letterboxd #1927
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2512
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3550
- Metacritic Critics #1368
- Metacritic Audience #2111
- Criticker #1532
- Douban #1674
- Kinopoisk #2988
- AlloCiné #3181
- Trakt #3517
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 51, highest is Google on 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A young boy named Max, feeling misunderstood and rebellious, runs away from home after a fight with his mother. He sails to a distant island inhabited by large, temperamental creatures. They crown him as their king, and Max promises to create a place where everyone will be happy. He navigates the complex and often volatile emotions of the wild things, discovering the challenges of leadership and the deep connections between anger, loneliness, and the need for belonging.
Details
- Director
- Spike Jonze
- Writers
- Dave Eggers, Spike Jonze
- Based on
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Released
- 16 October 2009
- Country
- United States, Germany
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $100.0M
- Box office
- $100.1M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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| National Board of Review: Top Ten Films 2009 | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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