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Ruthless People

1986
23,180 feet · Prominence
1,182nd of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw62

$72m worldwide in 1986 — $216m in today's money.

As released$72mIn 2026 money$216mRank1,545 of 8,589In 198613 of 117

How Draw works

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

Praise86

Critics 86, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 86.

Critics86 → 43Awards0 → 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.

Legacy30

Judged directly: Sharp 80s farce, largely faded.

Verdict30 of 100IMDb6.9 from 32kWikipedia12k views a monthAge40 years

Scored beside it · 1,836 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 62 praise 86 legacy 30averages 59, which places it at23,180 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

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them.