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The Best Man

1999 · directed by Malcolm D. Lee · 120 min
22,540 feet · Prominence
1,920th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw51

Lifetime worldwide gross $35m, re-releases included; about $68m in 2026 money.

Rank3,625 of 11,051In 199975 of 196

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.

Legacy46

Not judged yet, so Legacy falls back to footprint: how many still rate it, how highly, and for how long.

IMDb6.7 from 13kWikipedia15k views a monthAge27 years

How Legacy works

Canon list membership, reach (Wikipedia traffic above IMDb votes) and time served. Every signal behind it keeps updating, which is what separates Legacy from Praise.

draw 51 praise 66 legacy 46averages 54, placing it at22,540 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

▲ Taye Diggs▲ Nia Long▲ Harold Perrineau

In these careers — elevation for this film

Taye Diggs19,122 ftTerrence Howard18,801 ftMorris Chestnut18,778 ftNia Long18,597 ftSanaa Lathan18,566 ftHarold Perrineau18,279 ftRegina Hall17,977 ft