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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1982 · directed by Amy Heckerling · 90 min
24,954 feet · Prominence
504th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw54

Lifetime worldwide gross $27m, re-releases included; about $93m in 2026 money.

Rank3,079 of 11,051In 198227 of 98

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics70 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.

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 · 275 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 54 praise 70 legacy 72averages 65, placing it at24,954 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

▲ Ray Walston

In these careers — elevation for this film

Sean Penn20,165 ftJennifer Jason Leigh19,417 ftJudge Reinhold18,688 ftPhoebe Cates18,560 ftRay Walston18,176 ftNicolas Cage17,663 ftForest Whitaker17,660 ftEric Stoltz17,654 ftAnthony Edwards17,648 ftAmanda Wyss17,630 ft