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Old School

2003 · directed by Todd Phillips · 92 min
22,824 feet · Prominence
1,517th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw58

Lifetime worldwide gross $87m, re-releases included; about $156m in 2026 money.

Rank2,103 of 11,051In 200362 of 227

How Draw works

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

Praise57

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics57 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.

Legacy52

Judged directly: Frank the Tank quoted constantly.

Verdict52 of 100IMDb7 from 256kWikipedia39k views a monthAge23 years

Scored beside it · 988 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 58 praise 57 legacy 52averages 56, placing it at22,824 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

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