Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s
Breaking the Waves
Scored from 154 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In a strict religious community on the Scottish coast, naive newlywed Bess McNeill is devastated when her oil-rig worker husband Jan is paralyzed in an accident. From his hospital bed, Jan asks her to take other lovers and tell him about it, believing it will keep him alive. Bess, convinced she is acting on God's will, embarks on increasingly dangerous sexual encounters that put her at odds with her church and community.
Breaking the Waves (1996) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.
154 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 164 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,224 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
Is Breaking the Waves (1996) worth watching?
- Cohort
- Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
- Calibrated reviewers
- 154
Cohort: Films · 1990s
