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What Dreams May Come

1998 · directed by Vincent Ward · 113 min
21,246 feet · Prominence
1,926th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw58

$71m worldwide in 1998 — $145m in today's money.

As released$71mIn 2026 money$145mRank2,104 of 8,589In 199846 of 165

How Draw works

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

Praise52

Critics 48, awards 16. Half each, so Praise lands at 52.

Critics48 → 24Awards16 → 8

Oscars1 won Visual Effects1 nominated Production Design
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.

Legacy32

Judged directly: Painterly afterlife imagery, otherwise faded.

Verdict32 of 100IMDb7 from 118kWikipedia22k views a monthAge28 years

Scored beside it · 1,760 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 52 legacy 32averages 47, which places it at21,246 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

Robin Williams22,590 ft