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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 fantasy, comedy film directed by Mel Stuart. It scores 7.8 on IMDb, 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, 67 on Metacritic, 7.5 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 78 while Metacritic critics give it 67, a gap of 11 points in favor of audiences. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 5 of 84 films from 1971 in our catalog and number 88 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: Peter Ostrum, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Diana Sowle, Julie Dawn Cole, Roy Kinnear.

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