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Some Kind of Wonderful

1987 · directed by Howard Deutch · 95 min
22,514 feet · Prominence
1,969th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw49

Lifetime worldwide gross $19m, re-releases included; about $54m in 2026 money.

Rank4,098 of 11,051In 198756 of 162

How Draw works

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

Praise66

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics66 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.

Legacy47

Judged directly: Hughes-era teen film, nostalgic staying power.

Verdict47 of 100IMDb7 from 37kWikipedia17k views a monthAge39 years

Scored beside it · 1,279 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 49 praise 66 legacy 47averages 54, 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ Eric Stoltz

In these careers — elevation for this film

Mary Stuart Masterson19,440 ftEric Stoltz19,175 ftLea Thompson18,591 ftElias Koteas18,158 ftJohn Ashton17,945 ft