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The Notebook

2004 · directed by Nick Cassavetes · 123 min
24,204 feet · Prominence
728th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘The Notebook’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Andrew Gruttadaro

How this film scores

Draw61

$116m worldwide in 2004 — $202m in today's money.

As released$116mIn 2026 money$202mRank1,636 of 8,589In 200445 of 209

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

Critics 54, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 54.

Critics54 → 27Awards0 → 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.

Legacy70

Judged directly: Rain kiss endlessly parodied; defining romance.

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

Scored beside it · 297 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 61 praise 54 legacy 70averages 62, which places it at24,204 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

Ryan Gosling22,381 ft