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True Romance

1993 · directed by Tony Scott · 119 min · R
24,024 feet · Prominence
866th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw45

Lifetime worldwide gross $13m, re-releases included; about $29m in 2026 money.

Rank5,316 of 11,051In 199397 of 199

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics76 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.

Legacy60

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

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

Scored beside it · 586 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 76 legacy 60averages 60, placing it at24,024 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.

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