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Old School

2003 · directed by Todd Phillips · 92 min
23,014 feet · Prominence
1,248th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

How this film scores

Draw58

$87m worldwide in 2003 — $156m in today's money.

As released$87mIn 2026 money$156mRank1,987 of 8,589In 200359 of 176

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

Critics 57, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 57.

Critics57 → 29Awards0 → 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.

Legacy52

Judged directly: Frank the Tank quoted constantly.

Verdict52 of 100IMDb7 from 256kWikipedia39k views a monthAge23 years

Scored beside it · 769 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 58 praise 57 legacy 52averages 56, which places it at23,014 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

Will Ferrell21,941 ft