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Primal Fear (1996): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Primal Fear is a 1996 crime, drama, thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 77% on Rotten Tomatoes, 47 on Metacritic, 7.7 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 77 while Metacritic critics give it 47, a gap of 30 points in favor of audiences. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 3 of 76 films from 1996 in our catalog and number 174 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand.

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