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- 1990
- PG
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 45 m
- 1990
- PG
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 45 m
Summary The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Directed By: Warren Beatty
Written By: Chester Gould, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.
- 1990
- PG
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 45 m
- 1990
- PG
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 1 h 45 m
Dick Tracy
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6.8
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Summary The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Directed By: Warren Beatty
Written By: Chester Gould, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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67% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
68
67% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
33% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Warren Beatty's production of Dick Tracy approaches the material with the same fetishistic glee I felt when I was reading the strip.
Dick Tracy is light on its feet where Batman clomped and wheezed, and it's fantastic -- that's the word -- where Batman was merely well designed. [15 Jun 1990, p.G5]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.8
62% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.8
62% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Surprisingly sweet and good-natured, Dick Tracy is a highly stylized piece of fluff that's easier to digest than the ponderous pretensions of the equally over-hyped Batman.
Warren Beatty's new tour de force about the ax-jawed detective is generally fun to watch. Visually, it's brilliant. Dramatically, it's OK. [15 Jun 1990, p.3F]
Dick Tracy is an ambitiously vainglorious effort, expensive, beautifully appointed, but at its core empty as a spent bullet. It asks us to read these comics without a grain of salt or a pinch of irony.
Tracy is Tinseltown's annual celebration of everything that's wrong with itself: the hype, the agent-negotiated star system, the Hollywood "fun" assembly-line method of copy-cat mediocrity, etc.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 4 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations
