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White Men Can't Jump

1992
23,565 feet · Prominence
985th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘White Men Can’t Jump’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Rembert Browne

How this film scores

Draw61

$91m worldwide in 1992 — $213m in today's money.

As released$91mIn 2026 money$213mRank1,560 of 8,589In 199225 of 135

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

Critics 70, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 70.

Critics70 → 35Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. 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 · 900 of 3,430 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, which places it at23,565 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

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them.