West Side Story (1961) movie poster

West Side Story (1961)

"The screen achieves one of the great entertainments in the history of motion pictures."
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👍 81%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 89%
CrimeDramaRomance

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Director
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Runtime
2h 33m
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.2/10 (2,009 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Metacritic
86

Cast

Natalie Wood as Maria · 77% avg
Richard Beymer as Tony
Russ Tamblyn as Riff · 82% avg
Rita Moreno as Anita · 72% avg
George Chakiris as Bernardo
Simon Oakland as Schrank · 79% avg
Ned Glass as Doc
William Bramley as Krupke

Is West Side Story good?

Most people think so. 81% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 89%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#402 / 1253 · Crime
Rank in its year
#9 / 13 · 1961
On ThumbScore's lists
Best Free Romance Movies on Fandango at Home (#16) · Oscar-Winning Movies Ranked by Audience Score (#51) · Best Picture Winners Ranked by Audience Score (#61)

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

Overview

In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love. Wikipedia ↗

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Natalie Wood injured her left wrist while filming The Green Promise (1949). It caused one of her wrist bones to protrude out. To hide this, she wore bracelets in many of her movies: West Side Story (1961), Rebel Without a Cause (1955), and Gypsy (1962).
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