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Where the Wild Things Are

2009 · directed by Spike Jonze · 101 min
22,559 feet · Prominence
1,885th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw58

Lifetime worldwide gross $100m, re-releases included; about $154m in 2026 money.

Rank2,135 of 11,051In 200956 of 312

How Draw works

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

Praise72

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics72 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.

Legacy40

Judged directly: Jonze mood film, beloved by a cohort.

Verdict40 of 100IMDb6.7 from 111kWikipedia26k views a monthAge17 years

Scored beside it · 1,790 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 58 praise 72 legacy 40averages 57, placing it at22,559 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

James Gandolfini19,321 ftCatherine Keener18,579 ftLauren Ambrose18,242 ftForest Whitaker18,169 ftChris Cooper18,106 ftCatherine O'Hara18,093 ftPaul Dano18,010 ftMark Ruffalo17,655 ft