The Monuments Men

Summary: An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.

Release Date: February 07, 2014

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Director: George Clooney

Writers: George Clooney

, Grant Heslov

, Robert M. Edsel

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Columbia Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Smokehouse Pictures, Obelisk Productions, Studio Babelsberg

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 70,000,000

Domestic: $ 78,031,620

International: $ 78,675,018

Box office:

Budget:$70MDomestic:$78MInternational:$78.7MWorldwide:$156.7M

Box office International:

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Adaptation/remake:

based on true story, based on book

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Columbia Pictures

14%

The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this 14% higher than the critics.

30%44%

The Metacritic audience rated this 3% higher than the critics.

Metacritic Meta:

52/100

Metacritic User:

55/100

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6% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

6% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White88.89%Latino5.56%Jewish5.56%

1.49

BechdeltestNo 2 women

Commonsensemedia

Message3/5
Role model3/5
Violence3/5
Sex1/5
Language2/5
Drugs3/5

Dove

Sex1/5
Language5/5
Violence2/5
Drugs2/5
Nudity2/5
Other2/5

This film gets a 1.49/5 family friendly score

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1940s 1970s abandoned house abandoned mine actor director writer adolf hitler character air base airfield airplane amateur radio ambush american abroad american flag apartment architect architecture armored car army base army private army uniform arrest arson art art archive art collection art collector art expert art gallery art heist art historian art theft artifact austria barbed wire bare chested male barn based on book based on true story basic training battle battle of normandy battlefield beach behind enemy lines belgium betrayal bilingualism binoculars biplane black comedy blood blood splatter boat bomb bravery bridge british army british soldier bruges belgium burning painting cafe captain castle casualty of war child sniper child soldier church cigarette cigarette smoking co written by actor collaborator colonel combat commando commando mission commando unit copper mine corpse courage curator death death of friend deception dentist desperation detonator directed by star disguise doctor dog double cross dwight d. eisenhower character dynamite engineer england englishman abroad ensemble cast escape evacuation explosion false accusation farm female spy fire flamethrower flash forward flemish art france franklin d. roosevelt character french countryside french resistance frenchman frenchwoman fugitive gender in title general generator german soldier ghent belgium ghost town gold gold bar gold tooth graveyard gunfight gurney ham radio heist held at gunpoint helmet hermann goering character heroism hidden loot historian horse hostage impostor inspired by true events interrogation italy jail cell knife landmine last supper letter lieutenant looking at oneself in a mirror looting luger mad doctor major male camaraderie man wears eyeglasses map mass grave mercilessness mexican standoff military military jeep military officer military training military uniform mine mission montage monuments men murder museum mustache nazi nazi germany nazi soldier nazi stolen art nazi uniform new york city newspaper clipping newspaper headline no opening credits normandy normandy france obstacle course painting painting as art paris france pistol platoon plunder plundering post world war two post world war two germany president of the united states priest professor race against time radio railyard rain red army redemption reference to adolf hitler reference to jan van eyck reference to leonardo da vinci reference to michelangelo reference to pablo picasso reference to pierre auguste renoir reference to raphael reference to the madonna religious object repatriation rescue resistance resistance fighter restaurant revolver rifle robbery russian abroad russian soldier salt mine scar sculpting sculpture self sacrifice sergeant shooting range shootout shot in the back shot in the chest shot to death shower slideshow sniper snow special forces spy ss statue stolen art stolen gold subtitled scene surprise ending swastika tank target practice tent theater timeframe 1940s timeframe 1970s title same as book title spoken by character tommy gun train station training traitor translator truck u.s. army u.s. military u.s. soldier uniform vandalism village vinyl war criminal war reparations warehouse wartime wisecrack humor world war two written by director written by star year 1943 year 1944 year 1945 year 1977

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This film gets a 1.49/5 family friendly score

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Commonsensemedia Rating https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-monuments-men last updated: 2024-10-25Update data
Message 3/5	Is a painting or statue worth a human life? Stokes and his men set off on an important mission to find and protect the artifacts that define Western culture, items that would be a terrible blow to humanity if they were lost or destroyed during war, and some circumstances force them to address this thorny question.
Role model 3/5	Stokes and the rest of the Monuments Men enter World War II, assigned not to kill or destroy, but to protect invaluable objects of art. It's a noble task, made more difficult by the death and destruction that surrounds them.
Violence 3/5	Several scenes feature wartime violence, including explosions and gunfights. One scene takes place in a battlefield hospital filled with bloody and dying soldiers. A few characters are shot, sometimes at close range.
Sex 1/5	Very tame flirting between two people who are thrown together during wartime, though the man chooses to be faithful to his wife.
Language 2/5	Occasional swearing, including "sh-t," "hell," "Jesus Christ," and "goddamn."
Drugs 3/5	Many people smoke cigarettes, which was typical at the time. Some scenes feature people drinking wine, champagne, cognac and other beverages in social situations.
Dove Rating https://dove.org/review/10244-the-monuments-men/
Faith 0/5	None
Sex 1/5	A woman hints she wants a married man to spend the night with her but he doesn't.
Language 5/5	GD-6; J/JC-6; O/G-1; H-9; "H-bent"-1; S-5; D-2; SOB-1; A "Screw the Germans" comment.
Violence 2/5	A bomb is dropped on a city; several characters are shot and killed; some bloody wounds including a stomach wound and blood seen on hands; a kid does some shooting at soldiers but does not hit them; a lot of gunfire at characters; a dentist uses a hammer on man's tooth to help him.
Drugs 2/5	Several drinking scenes including champagne and cognac; constant cigarette smoking throughout the movie; cigar smoking.
Nudity 2/5	Artwork featuring women's breasts; a sculpture shows a boy's privates; woman's breasts seen on sculpture; a man's chest is seen in shower.
Other 2/5	Two women spit in a man's glass and then serve him a drink; a "kraut" comment; a man that is not Jewish is told he should be glad Jews were killed; death and grief.

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