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Step Brothers

2008 · directed by Adam McKay · 98 min
23,145 feet · Prominence
1,198th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables'Step Brothers' With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

How this film scores

Draw61

$128m worldwide in 2008 — $196m in today's money.

As released$128mIn 2026 money$196mRank1,673 of 8,589In 200843 of 224

How Draw works

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

Praise53

Critics 53, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 53.

Critics53 → 26Awards0 → 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.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Endlessly quoted; permanent comedy fixture.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb6.9 from 338kWikipedia27k views a monthAge18 years

Scored beside it · 700 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 61 praise 53 legacy 55averages 56, which places it at23,145 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 Ferrell21,919 ft