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The Phantom of the Opera
The classic musical comes to the big screen for the first time.
The classic musical comes to the big screen for the first time.
Drama, Romance, Thriller - 2004
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Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
143 min
Release date:
8 Dec 2004
Country:
GB
Languages:
Italian, English
Budget:
$70,000,000
Revenue:
$154,648,887
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 7 wins & 42 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera combines fingernails-on- blackboard audio agony with bamboo- under- fingernails physical torture.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
23 Dec 2004
rotten:
This guy's not the Phantom of the Opera, he's the Fashionably Scarred Stud of the Opera and that just doesn't work.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
27 Dec 2004
rotten:
Takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
27 Dec 2004
rotten:
The plot is impressively free of anything that does not smell of unpasteurized melodrama.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
15 Jan 2005
rotten:
My own reaction to the current version fashioned by Mr. Schumacher is one of pure stupefaction.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
27 Jan 2005
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