1987 · 1h 49m · Action, Crime, Thriller

Lethal Weapon

Directed byRichard Donner

IMDb

7.6

299K votes

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Rotten Tomatoes

80%

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Box office

$120M

worldwide

Released Mar 6, 1987 by Silver Pictures

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18th of 112Films of 1987 with 10,000+ votes

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Critics (Metacritic)68

Audience (IMDb x 10)76

Audiences liked it more than critics did, by 8 points.

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Director: Richard Donner
Writers: Shane Black Jeffrey Boam
Music: Eric Clapton Michael Kamen
Cinematography: Stephen Goldblatt
Editing: Stuart Baird
Producers: Richard Donner Joel Silver

1 nominations, 0 wins

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Best Sound · Academy Awards 1988
Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, Bill Nelson
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