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Mississippi Mermaid

1969 · directed by François Truffaut · 123 min
22,507 feet · Prominence
1,981st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw51

Lifetime worldwide gross $7m, re-releases included; about $66m in 2026 money.

Rank3,682 of 11,051In 196913 of 25

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.

Critics83 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.

Legacy36

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

IMDb6.9 from 8kWikipedia2k views a monthAge57 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 83 legacy 36averages 57, placing it at22,507 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

▲ Jean-Paul Belmondo

In these careers — elevation for this film

Catherine Deneuve19,709 ftJean-Paul Belmondo19,687 ftFrançois Truffaut18,192 ft