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The Bodyguard

1992 · directed by Mick Jackson · 129 min
23,418 feet · Prominence
1,171st of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw78

Lifetime worldwide gross $411m, re-releases included; about $967m in 2026 money.

Rank207 of 11,051In 19922 of 166

How Draw works

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

Praise39

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics39 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: I Will Always Love You is inescapable.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb6.4 from 158kWikipedia36k views a monthAge34 years

Scored beside it · 537 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 78 praise 39 legacy 62averages 60, placing it at23,418 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

▲ Gary Kemp

In these careers — elevation for this film

Whitney Houston20,002 ftKevin Costner19,881 ftBill Cobbs17,961 ftGary Kemp17,892 ftDebbie Reynolds17,645 ftRobert Wuhl17,644 ft