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Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi

1983 · Movie · 134 min

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Scores

  • IMDb8.3/10as of 2026-03-07
  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer83%as of 2026-01-15
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.3/10as of 2025-07-10
  • Metacritic58/100as of 2026-01-15

What it is

Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas. The sequel to The Empire Strikes Back (1980), it is the third installment in the original Star Wars trilogy and the sixth chronological film in the "Skywalker Saga".

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Genres
Science fiction / Adventure / Fantasy / Action
Original language
English

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