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Valley Girl

1983 · directed by Martha Coolidge · 99 min
22,841 feet · Prominence
1,501st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw50

Lifetime worldwide gross $17m, re-releases included; about $57m in 2026 money.

Rank3,966 of 11,051In 198340 of 101

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.

Legacy50

Judged directly: Eighties teen touchstone, Cage breakout.

Verdict50 of 100IMDb6.4 from 20kWikipedia14k views a monthAge43 years

Scored beside it · 1,106 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 50 praise 66 legacy 50averages 55, placing it at22,841 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

Nicolas Cage19,838 ftE. G. Daily18,272 ftFrederic Forrest17,645 ftSteven Bauer17,633 ft