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Most movie scripts are 120 pages and a page translates to roughly a minute of film, hence most films being about just under 2 hours. It's quite genre dependent as comedies and animations are rarely more than 90 minutes, but summer blockbusters and thrillers are usually about 2 hours.

This project attempts to calculate an average. Though his claim is skewered by choosing the top 50 rated films, which I'd argue favours longer art movies over shorter genre movies.

http://www.infinitypoint0.com/60/imdb-film-length-project/

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The average movie is approximately 90-100 minutes long. There are however many anomalies with the minimum qualification for a full length film being 40 minutes, and the longest being an 87 hour movie.

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12y ago

Kid's movies and Animated movies are often about an hour and a half long

Adventure and Fantasy movies have been known to reach three hours (eg. The Lord of the Rings movies)

Most other movies are around two hours.

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8y ago

Most movies shown in theatres in USA are in the two hour range, from ninety minutes to two-plus hours, depending on what the director believes is the necessary amount of screen time to serve the story adequately.

Director's cuts are usually longer, and when films are shown on television, they are always edited for time -- to make way for the commercials that sponsor the film in that medium.

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14y ago

Most movies on general release or between 80 and 120 minutes.

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15y ago

Their usually around a two hour period, but sometimes their a little below, or over that. Most though are around two hours:) Hope I helped!

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15y ago

The average time for an American movie is around 2 hours and 30 min.

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14y ago

Most animated children's films are around 90 minutes long.

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One hour and 45 minutes

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120 minutes

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1hour and 30 minutes

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