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Female Trouble

1976 · directed by John Waters · 98 min
23,084 feet · Prominence
1,364th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw16

Lifetime worldwide gross $0m, re-releases included; about $0m in 2026 money.

Rank10,605 of 11,051In 197648 of 48

How Draw works

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

Praise90

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics90 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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy52

Judged directly: Divine's defining Waters cult classic, Criterion.

Verdict52 of 100IMDb7.1 from 11kWikipedia10k views a monthAge50 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 980 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 16 praise 90 legacy 52averages 53, placing it at23,084 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

Divine19,092 ftDavid Lochary17,968 ftMink Stole17,966 ftMary Vivian Pearce17,833 ft