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Blue Velvet (1986): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Blue Velvet is a 1986 mystery, thriller, crime film directed by David Lynch. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, 75 on Metacritic, 7.6 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 2 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 6 of 92 films from 1986 in our catalog and number 127 of 1,701 thriller films.
Billed cast: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell.
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