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Pretty in Pink

1986 · directed by Howard Deutch · 97 min
23,703 feet · Prominence
1,024th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw56

Lifetime worldwide gross $40m, re-releases included; about $122m in 2026 money.

Rank2,546 of 11,051In 198627 of 141

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics66 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.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Hughes canon, Duckie, prom dress.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb6.7 from 94kWikipedia34k views a monthAge40 years

Scored beside it · 697 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 56 praise 66 legacy 58averages 60, placing it at23,703 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ Molly Ringwald▲ Annie Potts

In these careers — elevation for this film

Molly Ringwald20,117 ftAndrew McCarthy18,888 ftJames Spader18,547 ftHarry Dean Stanton18,475 ftAnnie Potts18,211 ftAndrew Dice Clay17,637 ftMargaret Colin17,637 ft