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1989 · directed by Michael Lehmann · 103 min
24,420 feet · Prominence
691st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw31

Lifetime worldwide gross $1m, re-releases included; about $3m in 2026 money.

Rank8,367 of 11,051In 1989131 of 156

How Draw works

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

Praise84

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics84 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.

Legacy66

Judged directly: Massive quotable cult, top traffic.

Verdict66 of 100IMDb7.1 from 125kWikipedia54k views a monthAge37 years

Scored beside it · 402 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 31 praise 84 legacy 66averages 60, placing it at24,420 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

▲ Lisanne Falk

In these careers — elevation for this film

Winona Ryder19,695 ftChristian Slater19,331 ftShannen Doherty18,046 ftLisanne Falk17,826 ftPenelope Milford17,698 ft