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Pee-wee's Big Adventure

1985 · directed by Tim Burton · 91 min
23,885 feet · Prominence
931st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw56

Lifetime worldwide gross $41m, re-releases included; about $125m in 2026 money.

Rank2,485 of 11,051In 198523 of 123

How Draw works

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

Praise63

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics63 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.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Criterion, Burton debut, deep cult.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.1 from 63kWikipedia25k views a monthAge41 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 529 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 56 praise 63 legacy 62averages 60, placing it at23,885 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

Paul Reubens19,243 ftE. G. Daily18,088 ftDiane Salinger17,975 ftMark Holton17,890 ftJames Brolin17,650 ft