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The Breakfast Club

1985 · directed by John Hughes · 98 min · R
26,456 feet · Prominence
170th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw59

Lifetime worldwide gross $52m, re-releases included; about $158m in 2026 money.

Rank2,083 of 11,051In 198517 of 123

How Draw works

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

Praise77

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics77 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.

Legacy86

Judged directly: Defining teen film, endlessly referenced.

Verdict86 of 100IMDb7.8 from 470kWikipedia60k views a monthAge41 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 54 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 59 praise 77 legacy 86averages 74, placing it at26,456 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

▲ Judd Nelson▲ Anthony Michael Hall

In these careers — elevation for this film

Judd Nelson19,933 ftMolly Ringwald19,811 ftAnthony Michael Hall19,475 ftAlly Sheedy19,326 ftEmilio Estevez19,318 ft