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Swingers

1996 · directed by Doug Liman · 96 min
23,493 feet · Prominence
1,133rd of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw37

Lifetime worldwide gross $5m, re-releases included; about $9m in 2026 money.

Rank7,074 of 11,051In 1996145 of 191

How Draw works

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

Praise79

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics79 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.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Quoted 90s touchstone, career-defining.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb7.2 from 92kWikipedia20k views a monthAge30 years

Scored beside it · 852 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 37 praise 79 legacy 55averages 57, placing it at23,493 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

Vince Vaughn19,718 ftJon Favreau19,245 ftRon Livingston18,042 ftHeather Graham18,029 ft