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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

1994 · directed by Tom Shadyac · 86 min
22,762 feet · Prominence
1,552nd of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw63

Lifetime worldwide gross $107m, re-releases included; about $239m in 2026 money.

Rank1,461 of 11,051In 199427 of 178

How Draw works

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

Praise43

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics43 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.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Carrey launchpad, endlessly imitated.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb6.9 from 351kWikipedia45k views a monthAge32 years

Scored beside it · 711 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 63 praise 43 legacy 58averages 55, placing it at22,762 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

Jim Carrey20,113 ftSean Young18,227 ftCourteney Cox18,203 ftUdo Kier17,639 ft