"No, Mr. McMurphy. When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was 9 to 9."
by Col Needham | created - 05 Jul 2011 | updated - 13 Dec 2013 | PublicI've just seen Larry Crowne (2011) which I loved and is on my list of summer movies I can't wait to see. I was surprised to discover it currently has an IMDb rating of 5.7/10 and a MetaScore of 37/100. Ouch. I can't understand what's going on here ... is Nurse Ratched in charge of the voting or what?
This, therefore, is a list of movies which I think are great but have a disproportionately low IMDb rating, all IMHO of course. See your own list here using Advanced Title Search to show titles with 6/10 or less on IMDb sorted by your highest votes.
The list below is in reverse chronological order and I gave every one of these either 9/10 or 10/10. IMDb rating at the time of list creation recorded in case any of these are re-evaluated over time. They ought to be.
"No, Mr. McMurphy. When the meeting was adjourned, the vote was 9 to 9."
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1. Albatross (2011)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.
Director: Niall MacCormick | Stars: Felicity Jones, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond
Votes: 5,621
IMDb = 5.4/10 (and this movie nearly made my top 10 of 2011)
2. Larry Crowne (2011)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college.
Director: Tom Hanks | Stars: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Sarah Mahoney, Roxana Ortega
Votes: 70,810 | Gross: $35.61M
IMDb = 5.7/10
3. Twelve (2010)
R | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Philip Ettinger
Votes: 12,656 | Gross: $0.18M
IMDb = 5.5/10
4. 4.3.2.1. (2010)
Not Rated | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
4 girls out on a 3 days trip in to 2 cities, if they survive. While Jo is working in a supermarket, her 3 friends are all out on their adventures. A chance encounter with diamond thieves sends them on a collision course with fate itself.
Directors: Noel Clarke, Mark Davis | Stars: Emma Roberts, Tamsin Egerton, Ophelia Lovibond, Shanika Warren-Markland
Votes: 11,021
IMDb = 5.8/10 (this movie did make my top 10 of 2010)
5. 27 Dresses (2008)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Romance
After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.
Director: Anne Fletcher | Stars: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Akerman, Brian Kerwin
Votes: 175,060 | Gross: $76.81M
IMDb = 6.0/10
6. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith
Votes: 178,512 | Gross: $79.37M
IMDb = 5.5/10
7. Lady in the Water (2006)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban
Votes: 103,745 | Gross: $42.29M
IMDb = 5.7/10
8. The Black Dahlia (2006)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank
Votes: 77,019 | Gross: $22.52M
IMDb = 5.6/10
9. Miami Vice (2006)
R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris
Votes: 123,696 | Gross: $63.45M
IMDb = 6.0/10
10. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)
R | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A former gangster reenters the criminal underworld after his brother suspiciously commits suicide.
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Clive Owen, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 8,987 | Gross: $0.36M
IMDb = 5.9/10
11. Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a Mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Directors: Kelly Makin, Carl Gottlieb | Stars: Hugh Grant, Jeanne Tripplehorn, James Caan, Burt Young
Votes: 38,214 | Gross: $33.86M
IMDb = 5.8/10
12. Message in a Bottle (1999)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Romance
A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.
Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman, John Savage
Votes: 40,348 | Gross: $52.88M
IMDb = 5.7/10
13. Random Hearts (1999)
R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Police Sergeant Dutch Van Den Broek (Harrison Ford) and U.S. Representative Kay Chandler (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) lose their spouses in a plane crash, and they soon discover that their spouses were having an affair with each other.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt
Votes: 23,430 | Gross: $31.05M
IMDb = 4.9/10
14. Jawbreaker (1999)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Three of the most popular girls at Reagan High accidentally kill the prom queen with a jawbreaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong.
Director: Darren Stein | Stars: Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, Alexandra Adi
Votes: 28,929 | Gross: $3.07M
IMDb = 4.8/10
15. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
R | 92 min | Comedy
Two dim-witted, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to impress their classmates.
Director: David Mirkin | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Garofalo, Alan Cumming
Votes: 53,005 | Gross: $29.21M
IMDb = 5.9/10
16. Mulholland Falls (1996)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri
Votes: 18,977 | Gross: $11.50M
IMDb = 6.0/10
17. Waterworld (1995)
PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.
Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino
Votes: 209,855 | Gross: $88.25M
IMDb = 5.8/10
18. Final Analysis (1992)
R | 124 min | Drama, Thriller
A psychiatrist becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his patients, but the influence of her controlling gangster husband threatens to destroy them both.
Director: Phil Joanou | Stars: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts
Votes: 15,290 | Gross: $28.59M
IMDb = 5.6/10
19. Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
Director: Norman René | Stars: Meg Ryan, Alec Baldwin, Kathy Bates, Ned Beatty
Votes: 8,521 | Gross: $20.01M
IMDb = 5.4/10
20. Love at Large (1990)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins, Anne Archer, Kate Capshaw
Votes: 1,483 | Gross: $1.44M
IMDb = 5.9/10
21. Relentless (1989)
R | 92 min | Crime, Thriller
Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster
Votes: 1,854 | Gross: $6.99M
IMDb = 5.6/10
22. Fool for Love (1985)
R | 106 min | Drama
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid
Votes: 2,938 | Gross: $0.84M
IMDb = 5.7/10
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