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This Is Spinal Tap (1984): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

This Is Spinal Tap is a 1984 comedy, musical film directed by Rob Reiner. It scores 7.9 on IMDb, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, 92 on Metacritic, 7.4 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 79 while Metacritic critics give it 92, a gap of 13 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 7 of 77 films from 1984 in our catalog and number 112 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, June Chadwick, Tony Hendra.

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