
$29m worldwide in 1987 — $85m in today's money.
As released$29mIn 2026 money$85mRank2,963 of 8,589In 198742 of 130
Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.
Critics 80, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 80.
Critics80 → 40Awards0 → 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.
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.
Judged directly: Endlessly quoted early Coen comedy.
Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.3 from 158kWikipedia28k views a monthAge39 years
If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.
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.
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.