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In the Heat of the Night (1967): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.9IMDb
96%Tomatometer
76Metacritic
7.7TMDB

In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 crime, drama, mystery film directed by Norman Jewison. It scores 7.9 on IMDb, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 76 on Metacritic, 7.7 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 3 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 5 of 88 films from 1967 in our catalog and number 32 of 716 mystery films.

Billed cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates, James Patterson.

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