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Garden State

2004 · directed by Zach Braff · 102 min
23,983 feet · Prominence
888th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw48

Lifetime worldwide gross $27m, re-releases included; about $47m in 2026 money.

Rank4,372 of 11,051In 2004111 of 256

How Draw works

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

Praise77

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics77 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: Millennial touchstone, soundtrack and trope defining.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb7.4 from 227kWikipedia18k views a monthAge22 years

Scored beside it · 689 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 48 praise 77 legacy 58averages 61, placing it at23,983 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

Zach Braff20,004 ftNatalie Portman19,530 ftPeter Sarsgaard18,658 ftIan Holm18,137 ftChristopher Carley17,658 ftDenis O'Hare17,636 ftRon Leibman17,636 ftGeoffrey Arend17,623 ft