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The Last Days of Disco

1998 · directed by Whit Stillman · 113 min
22,523 feet · Prominence
1,953rd of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw35

Lifetime worldwide gross $3m, re-releases included; about $6m in 2026 money.

Rank7,631 of 11,051In 1998153 of 198

How Draw works

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

Praise75

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics75 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: Stillman Criterion cult, small devoted following.

Verdict47 of 100IMDb6.7 from 15kWikipedia7k views a monthAge28 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 1,278 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 35 praise 75 legacy 47averages 52, placing it at22,523 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

▲ Chris Eigeman

In these careers — elevation for this film

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