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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

8.1IMDb
85%Tomatometer
73Metacritic
7.8TMDB

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 comedy, drama film directed by Frank Capra. It scores 8.1 on IMDb, 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, 73 on Metacritic, 7.8 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 8 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 3 of 93 films from 1939 in our catalog and number 29 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell.

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