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What About Bob?

1991
22,971 feet · Prominence
1,275th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

How this film scores

Draw58

$64m worldwide in 1991 — $154m in today's money.

As released$64mIn 2026 money$154mRank2,011 of 8,589In 199123 of 146

How Draw works

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

Praise66

Critics 66, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 66.

Critics66 → 33Awards0 → 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.

Legacy45

Judged directly: Baby steps entered comedy vocabulary.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb7 from 78kWikipedia0k views a monthAge35 years

Scored beside it · 1,048 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 58 praise 66 legacy 45averages 56, which places it at22,971 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

Bill Murray22,166 ft