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Home Alone

1990 · directed by Chris Columbus · 103 min
26,688 feet · Prominence
135th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw81

Lifetime worldwide gross $477m, re-releases included; about $1.20bn in 2026 money.

Rank118 of 11,051In 19902 of 147

How Draw works

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

Praise69

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics65 baseAwards25 signal → +4 lift

Oscars1 nominated Original Score
Golden Globes2 nominated Motion Picture, Actor
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.

Legacy85

Judged directly: Annual Christmas ritual, the scream is universal.

Verdict85 of 100IMDb7.8 from 739kWikipedia149k views a monthAge36 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 74 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 81 praise 69 legacy 85averages 78, placing it at26,688 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

▲ Daniel Stern▲ Roberts Blossom

In these careers — elevation for this film

Joe Pesci20,088 ftMacaulay Culkin19,933 ftDaniel Stern19,335 ftCatherine O'Hara18,669 ftJohn Heard18,245 ftRoberts Blossom18,147 ftJohn Candy17,678 ftKieran Culkin17,670 ftHope Davis17,663 ft