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Step Brothers

2008 · directed by Adam McKay · 98 min
22,955 feet · Prominence
1,435th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw61

Lifetime worldwide gross $128m, re-releases included; about $196m in 2026 money.

Rank1,755 of 11,051In 200852 of 300

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics53 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.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Endlessly quoted; permanent comedy fixture.

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

Scored beside it · 866 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 61 praise 53 legacy 55averages 56, placing it at22,955 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ John C. Reilly

In these careers — elevation for this film

John C. Reilly20,082 ftWill Ferrell19,687 ftRichard Jenkins18,743 ftAdam Scott18,518 ftMary Steenburgen18,393 ftKathryn Hahn18,293 ftSeth Rogen17,657 ft