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My Beautiful Laundrette

1985
22,698 feet · Prominence
1,419th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw36

$2m worldwide in 1985 — $8m in today's money.

As released$2mIn 2026 money$8mRank6,168 of 8,589In 198593 of 109

How Draw works

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

Praise86

Critics 86, awards 12. Half each, so Praise lands at 86.

Critics86 → 43Awards12 → 6

Oscars1 nominated Original Screenplay
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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy42

Judged directly: Queer British landmark, Day-Lewis breakthrough.

Verdict42 of 100IMDb6.8 from 18kWikipedia13k views a monthAge41 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 1,180 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 36 praise 86 legacy 42averages 55, which places it at22,698 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

Daniel Day-Lewis21,792 ft