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Bottle Rocket

1996 · directed by Wes Anderson · 91 min
22,514 feet · Prominence
1,971st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw30

Lifetime worldwide gross $1m, re-releases included; about $2m in 2026 money.

Rank8,707 of 11,051In 1996168 of 191

How Draw works

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

Praise77

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics77 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.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Criterion auteur debut, modest itself.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb6.9 from 88kWikipedia21k views a monthAge30 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 1,244 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 30 praise 77 legacy 48averages 52, placing it at22,514 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

Owen Wilson19,445 ftLuke Wilson18,788 ftJames Caan18,160 ft