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The Deer Hunter (1978): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

8.1IMDb
86%Tomatometer
90Metacritic
8.0TMDB

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 drama, war film directed by Michael Cimino. It scores 8.1 on IMDb, 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, 90 on Metacritic, 8.0 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 9 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 76 films from 1978 in our catalog and number 103 of 3,595 drama films.

Billed cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, George Dzundza.

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