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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

1987 · directed by John Hughes · 92 min
25,432 feet · Prominence
364th of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw58

$50m worldwide in 1987 — $144m in today's money.

As released$50mIn 2026 money$144mRank2,119 of 8,589In 198725 of 130

How Draw works

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

Praise83

Critics 83, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 83.

Critics83 → 41Awards0 → 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.

Legacy70

Judged directly: Thanksgiving staple, endlessly quoted Hughes.

Verdict70 of 100IMDb7.6 from 180kWikipedia42k views a monthAge39 years

Scored beside it · 290 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 58 praise 83 legacy 70averages 70, which places it at25,432 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

Steve Martin21,972 ft