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The 40 Year-Old Virgin

2005 · directed by Judd Apatow · 116 min
24,649 feet · Prominence
607th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw65

Lifetime worldwide gross $177m, re-releases included; about $300m in 2026 money.

Rank1,144 of 11,051In 200524 of 266

How Draw works

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

Praise79

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics79 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: Era-defining comedy, chest wax endlessly quoted.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb7.1 from 498kWikipedia43k views a monthAge21 years

Scored beside it · 658 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 65 praise 79 legacy 58averages 67, placing it at24,649 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

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