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Name: Casablanca
Director: Michael Curtiz
Genre: drama, romance
Released: 1942
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Rating: 8.5

Casablanca has an iRankMovies score of 91.3/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Casablanca (1942)

They had a date with fate in Casablanca!

Release:1942

Runtime:1h 42m

Country:United States

Director:Michael Curtiz

Language:English

Genre

DramaRomance

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Keywords

corruptionNaziEscape Love TriangleResistancespyPatriotismCasablanca Morocco

iRank91

Casablanca rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.5/10· 655K votes

Rotten Tomatoes99%

Metacritic100%

TMDb8.14/10· 6K votes

With 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.5/10 on IMDb and 100/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Casablanca

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Cast of Casablanca

Humphrey Bogart
as Rick Blaine
Ingrid Bergman
as Ilsa Lund
Paul Henreid
as Victor Laszlo
Claude Rains
as Captain Louis Renault
Conrad Veidt
as Major Heinrich Strasser
Sydney Greenstreet
as Signor Ferrari
Peter Lorre
as Ugarte
S.Z. Sakall
as Carl
Madeleine Lebeau
as Yvonne
Dooley Wilson
as Sam
Joy Page
as Annina Brandel
John Qualen
as Berger

Casablanca facts

Budget: $878K
Box office: $10.5M

Our take on Casablanca

Wartime Casablanca, a piano, and a cynic forced to choose between love and a cause: Curtiz's 1942 classic remains the benchmark for romantic drama where sacrifice outweighs sentiment. Its crackling dialogue, moral undertow and bittersweet farewell have outlived almost every imitator. If Rick and Ilsa's doomed romance moved you, seek out classic-era melodramas and love stories shadowed by duty, history and the roads not taken.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Romantic tension and wartime stakes create deeply compelling emotional conflicts
•Atmospheric setting captures historical moment with period authenticity and mood
•Chemistry between leads elevates dialogue-driven romance to timeless appeal