Tolkien has the period trappings and strong performances of a worthy biopic, but lacks the imagination required to truly do its subject justice.
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Director -
Dome Karukoski -
Producer -
Peter Chernin , Jenno Topping , David Ready , Kris Thykier -
Screenwriter -
David Gleeson , Stephen Beresford -
Distributor -
Fox Searchlight -
Production Co -
Chernin Entertainment -
Rating -
PG-13 (Some Sequences of War Violence) -
Genre -
Biography , History , Drama -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
May 10, 2019, Wide -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Jul 23, 2019 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$4.5M -
Runtime -
1h 52m
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