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Pay It Forward

2000
21,135 feet · Prominence
1,955th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw55

$56m worldwide in 2000 — $107m in today's money.

As released$56mIn 2026 money$107mRank2,589 of 8,589In 200063 of 172

How Draw works

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

Praise40

Critics 40, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 40.

Critics40 → 20Awards0 → 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.

Legacy42

Judged directly: Popularized the phrase more than film.

Verdict42 of 100IMDb7.2 from 128kWikipedia33k views a monthAge26 years

Scored beside it · 1,209 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 55 praise 40 legacy 42averages 46, which places it at21,135 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.