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Lost in America

1985 · directed by Albert Brooks · 91 min
24,291 feet · Prominence
743rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw45

Lifetime worldwide gross $10m, re-releases included; about $31m in 2026 money.

Rank5,167 of 11,051In 198578 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.

Praise87

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics87 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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy57

Judged directly: Criterion satire, admired but narrowly known.

Verdict57 of 100IMDb7 from 11kWikipedia5k views a monthAge41 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 713 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 45 praise 87 legacy 57averages 63, placing it at24,291 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

▲ Julie Hagerty▲ Michael Greene

In these careers — elevation for this film

Albert Brooks19,969 ftJulie Hagerty18,898 ftGarry Marshall18,234 ftMichael Greene17,813 ft