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True Romance

1993
23,866 feet · Prominence
852nd of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables'True Romance' with Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

How this film scores

Draw45

$13m worldwide in 1993 — $29m in today's money.

As released$13mIn 2026 money$29mRank4,655 of 8,589In 199381 of 162

How Draw works

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

Praise76

Critics 76, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 76.

Critics76 → 38Awards0 → 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.

Legacy60

Judged directly: Tarantino script; Walken-Hopper scene endlessly quoted.

Verdict60 of 100IMDb7.9 from 259kWikipedia53k views a monthAge33 years

Scored beside it · 506 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 45 praise 76 legacy 60averages 60, which places it at23,866 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

Val Kilmer21,645 ftGary Oldman21,641 ftBrad Pitt21,625 ftSamuel L. Jackson21,572 ft