Lost in Translation (2003) movie poster

Lost in Translation (2003)

"Everyone wants to be found."
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👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 93%
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Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
R
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.4/10 (7,950 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
91

Cast

Bill Murray as Bob Harris · 74% avg
Scarlett Johansson as Charlotte · 75% avg
Giovanni Ribisi as John · 72% avg
Anna Faris as Kelly · 70% avg
Akiko Takeshita as Ms. Kawasaki
Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe as Press Agent
Kazuko Shibata as Press Agent
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Is Lost in Translation good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 93%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#504 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#31 / 149 · 2003
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 8 · Sofia Coppola

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Lost in Translation is a 2003 American romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star shooting a whisky commercial in Tokyo, and Scarlett Johansson plays Charlotte, a recent Yale graduate accompanying her photographer husband who largely ignores her. Both suffering from insomnia and cultural dislocation in a city whose language and customs they don't understand, Bob and Charlotte form an intimate, tender connection that exists in the liminal space between friendship and romance.

Sofia Coppola's screenplay was a masterwork of restraint, depicting a relationship defined as much by what is not said and not done as by what is, and the film's famously inaudible final whisper between the two characters perfectly embodied this philosophy. Bill Murray delivered the finest dramatic performance of his career — funny, melancholic, and achingly human — in a role that drew from his own experiences of celebrity disconnection and middle-aged regret. Tokyo was filmed not as an exotic backdrop but as an emotional landscape — its neon-lit nights, karaoke bars, and quiet temple gardens reflecting the characters' internal states.

Sofia Coppola won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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