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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

1992 · directed by Curtis Hanson · 110 min
22,634 feet · Prominence
1,460th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Joanna Robinson

How this film scores

Draw61

$88m worldwide in 1992 — $207m in today's money.

As released$88mIn 2026 money$207mRank1,609 of 8,589In 199226 of 135

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.

Legacy38

Judged directly: Title became a phrase; nanny-thriller archetype.

Verdict38 of 100IMDb6.7 from 53kWikipedia62k views a monthAge34 years

Scored beside it · 1,392 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 66 legacy 38averages 55, which places it at22,634 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

Julianne Moore21,617 ft