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Eve's Bayou

1997 · directed by Kasi Lemmons · 108 min
22,576 feet · Prominence
1,858th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw45

Lifetime worldwide gross $15m, re-releases included; about $31m in 2026 money.

Rank5,208 of 11,051In 199797 of 213

How Draw works

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

Praise81

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics81 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.

Legacy40

Judged directly: Registry-preserved, reputation growing but narrow.

Verdict40 of 100IMDb7.2 from 13kWikipedia14k views a monthAge29 years

On the listsNational Film RegistryCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 1,788 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 81 legacy 40averages 55, placing it at22,576 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ Jurnee Smollett-Bell

In these careers — elevation for this film

Samuel L. Jackson19,233 ftJurnee Smollett-Bell18,891 ftDiahann Carroll17,834 ftVondie Curtis-Hall17,630 ft