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The Big Sleep (1946): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
The Big Sleep is a 1946 mystery, crime, thriller film directed by Howard Hawks. It scores 7.9 on IMDb, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 86 on Metacritic, 7.6 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 7 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 5 of 82 films from 1946 in our catalog and number 26 of 716 mystery films.
Billed cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Louis Jean Heydt, Charles Waldron.
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