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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1982 · directed by Amy Heckerling · 90 min
24,766 feet · Prominence
559th of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw54

$27m worldwide in 1982 — $93m in today's money.

As released$27mIn 2026 money$93mRank2,821 of 8,589In 198226 of 82

How Draw works

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

Praise70

Critics 70, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 70.

Critics70 → 35Awards0 → 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.

Legacy72

Judged directly: Registry and Criterion; Spicoli defined teen comedy.

Verdict72 of 100IMDb7.1 from 124kWikipedia53k views a monthAge44 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 263 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 54 praise 70 legacy 72averages 65, which places it at24,766 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

Nicolas Cage21,576 ft