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Bull Durham

1988 · directed by Ron Shelton · 108 min
24,787 feet · Prominence
565th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw58

Lifetime worldwide gross $51m, re-releases included; about $142m in 2026 money.

Rank2,266 of 11,051In 198823 of 173

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.

Critics85 baseAwards21 signal → +2 lift

Oscars1 nominated Original Screenplay
Golden Globes1 nominated Lead acting
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.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Criterion; the quoted baseball film.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb7 from 63kWikipedia16k views a monthAge38 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 650 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 58 praise 87 legacy 58averages 68, placing it at24,787 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

▲ Trey Wilson

In these careers — elevation for this film

Susan Sarandon20,142 ftKevin Costner19,879 ftTim Robbins19,553 ftTrey Wilson17,933 ftRobert Wuhl17,927 ftHenry G. Sanders17,624 ft