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The Notebook

2004 · directed by Nick Cassavetes · 123 min
24,259 feet · Prominence
762nd of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw61

Lifetime worldwide gross $116m, re-releases included; about $202m in 2026 money.

Rank1,714 of 11,051In 200447 of 256

How Draw works

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

Praise54

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics54 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.

Legacy70

Judged directly: Rain kiss endlessly parodied; defining romance.

Verdict70 of 100IMDb7.8 from 687kWikipedia2k views a monthAge22 years

Scored beside it · 320 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 61 praise 54 legacy 70averages 62, placing it at24,259 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.

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