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White Men Can't Jump

1992 · directed by Ron Shelton · 115 min · R
23,256 feet · Prominence
1,254th of 24,106 films scored
The Rewatchables‘White Men Can’t Jump’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Rembert Browne

How this film scores

Draw61

Lifetime worldwide gross $91m, re-releases included; about $213m in 2026 money.

Rank1,627 of 11,051In 199225 of 166

How Draw works

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

Praise70

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics70 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.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Streetball touchstone, quoted.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb6.8 from 104kWikipedia16k views a monthAge34 years

Scored beside it · 1,203 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 61 praise 70 legacy 48averages 60, placing it at23,256 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.

In these careers — elevation for this film

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