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Men in Black

1997 · Movie · 94 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer91%as of 2026-01-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.5/10as of 2021-10-10
  • Metacritic72/100as of 2026-01-11

What it is

Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Ed Solomon, based on the Marvel Comics series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham. Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith respectively star as Agent K and Agent J, who investigate a series of seemingly unrelated criminal incidents related to the extraterrestrials who live in secret on Earth.

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Genres
Action / Science fiction / Comedy
Original language
English

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