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1998 · directed by Wes Anderson · 93 min
24,655 feet · Prominence
583rd of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw46

$17m worldwide in 1998 — $35m in today's money.

As released$17mIn 2026 money$35mRank4,398 of 8,589In 199890 of 165

How Draw works

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

Praise89

Critics 89, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 89.

Critics89 → 44Awards0 → 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. 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.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Launched Wes Anderson's imitated style.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.6 from 208kWikipedia25k views a monthAge28 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 444 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 46 praise 89 legacy 62averages 66, which places it at24,655 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

Bill Murray21,853 ft