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American Pie

1999
24,821 feet · Prominence
544th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘American Pie’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

How this film scores

Draw70

$235m worldwide in 1999 — $466m in today's money.

As released$235mIn 2026 money$466mRank664 of 8,589In 199915 of 170

How Draw works

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

Praise60

Critics 60, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 60.

Critics60 → 30Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy68

Judged directly: Defined teen comedy; gave language MILF.

Verdict68 of 100IMDb7 from 463kWikipedia81k views a monthAge27 years

Scored beside it · 344 of 3,430 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 70 praise 60 legacy 68averages 66, which places it at24,821 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

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them.