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What About Bob?

1991 · directed by Frank Oz · 100 min · PG
22,656 feet · Prominence
1,741st of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw58

Lifetime worldwide gross $64m, re-releases included; about $154m in 2026 money.

Rank2,129 of 11,051In 199123 of 176

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics66 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.

Legacy45

Judged directly: Baby steps entered comedy vocabulary.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb7 from 78kWikipedia0k views a monthAge35 years

Scored beside it · 1,451 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 58 praise 66 legacy 45averages 56, placing it at22,656 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 Murray20,026 ftRichard Dreyfuss19,942 ftJulie Hagerty18,315 ftFrank Oz18,235 ft