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Name: The Godfather
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Genre: crime, drama
Released: 1972
Duration: 2 h 55 min
Rating: 9.2

The Godfather has an iRankMovies score of 94.2/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

The Godfather (1972)

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Release:1972

Runtime:2h 55m

Country:United States

Director:Francis Ford Coppola

Language:English

Genre

CrimeDrama

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Keywords

Based On Novel Or BookLoss Of Loved OneLove At First SightItalyGangsterSymbolismPatriarchEurope

iRank94

The Godfather rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb9.2/10· 2.2M votes

Rotten Tomatoes97%

Metacritic100%

TMDb8.687/10· 23K votes

With 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 9.2/10 on IMDb and 100/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Godfather

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Cast of The Godfather

Marlon Brando
as Don Vito Corleone
Al Pacino
as Michael Corleone
James Caan
as Sonny Corleone
Robert Duvall
as Tom Hagen
Richard S. Castellano
as Clemenza
Diane Keaton
as Kay Adams
Talia Shire
as Connie Corleone Rizzi
Gianni Russo
as Carlo Rizzi
Sterling Hayden
as Captain McCluskey
John Marley
as Jack Woltz
Richard Conte
as Barzini
Al Lettieri
as Sollozzo

The Godfather facts

Budget: $6M
Box office: $245.1M
Collection: The Godfather Collection

Our take on The Godfather

Coppola's 1972 masterpiece turned a mafia saga into a tragedy about family, power and the corruption of the American dream. Its deliberate pace, operatic violence and Michael Corleone's slow moral collapse set the template every crime epic since has chased. If The Godfather drew you in, you want scope and weight rather than action: Scorsese's GoodFellas, Leone's Once Upon a Time in America and City of God share its generational sweep and its fascination with how ordinary people are pulled into organized crime.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Masterful direction elevates crime family saga to timeless classic
•Perfectly balanced pacing sustains narrative tension throughout entire runtime
•Exceptional performances capture complex moral depths of protagonist characters