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The Aristocats

1970 · directed by Wolfgang Reitherman · 78 min
23,975 feet · Prominence
891st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw85

Lifetime worldwide gross $191m, re-releases included; about $1.62bn in 2026 money.

Rank47 of 11,051In 19701 of 38

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise65

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics65 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy50

Judged directly: Mid-tier Disney, Everybody Wants to Be a Cat.

Verdict50 of 100IMDb7.1 from 124kWikipedia33k views a monthAge56 years

Scored beside it · 1,050 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 85 praise 65 legacy 50averages 67, placing it at23,975 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Phil Harris▲ Sterling Holloway

In these careers — elevation for this film

Phil Harris19,497 ftEva Gabor18,589 ftScatman Crothers18,330 ftSterling Holloway17,996 ftMonica Evans17,765 ft