← Apex Mountain

The Sandlot

1993 · directed by David Mickey Evans · 101 min
23,653 feet · Prominence
1,048th of 24,106 films scored
The Rewatchables‘The Sandlot’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Mina Kimes →

How this film scores

Draw52

Lifetime worldwide gross $34m, re-releases included; about $78m in 2026 money.

Rank3,377 of 11,051In 199357 of 199

How Draw works

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

Praise61

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics61 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.

Legacy62

Judged directly: 'You're killing me, Smalls'; generational rewatch.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.8 from 113kWikipedia43k views a monthAge33 years

Scored beside it · 532 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 52 praise 61 legacy 62averages 58, placing it at23,653 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

Tom Guiry18,807 ftJames Earl Jones18,207 ftDenis Leary17,651 ftKaren Allen17,651 ftArliss Howard17,633 ft