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What Lies Beneath

2000 · directed by Robert Zemeckis · 130 min
21,949 feet · Prominence
1,720th of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw72

$291m worldwide in 2000 — $558m in today's money.

As released$291mIn 2026 money$558mRank510 of 8,589In 200010 of 172

How Draw works

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

Praise50

Critics 50, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 50.

Critics50 → 25Awards0 → 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.

Legacy32

Judged directly: Slick Hitchcock pastiche, faded.

Verdict32 of 100IMDb6.6 from 141kWikipedia59k views a monthAge26 years

Scored beside it · 1,740 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 72 praise 50 legacy 32averages 51, which places it at21,949 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

Harrison Ford22,228 ftMichelle Pfeiffer22,068 ft