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City Slickers

1991 · directed by Ron Underwood · 114 min
24,174 feet · Prominence
792nd of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw69

Lifetime worldwide gross $179m, re-releases included; about $434m in 2026 money.

Rank747 of 11,051In 199111 of 176

How Draw works

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

Praise83

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics77 baseAwards53 signal → +6 lift

Oscars1 won Supporting Actor
Golden Globes1 won Supporting Actor2 nominated Motion Picture, Actor
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: Palance pushups and one thing remembered.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb6.8 from 66kWikipedia15k views a monthAge35 years

Scored beside it · 1,141 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 69 praise 83 legacy 48averages 67, placing it at24,174 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

▲ Bruno Kirby

In these careers — elevation for this film

Billy Crystal20,334 ftDaniel Stern18,972 ftBruno Kirby18,633 ftPatricia Wettig18,010 ftJake Gyllenhaal17,666 ftJeffrey Tambor17,640 ftYeardley Smith17,628 ft