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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

1992 · directed by Chris Columbus · 120 min
22,885 feet · Prominence
1,472nd of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw77

Lifetime worldwide gross $359m, re-releases included; about $844m in 2026 money.

Rank267 of 11,051In 19923 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.

Praise41

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics41 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.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Christmas staple, notorious cameo.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb6.9 from 451kWikipedia81k views a monthAge34 years

Scored beside it · 868 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 77 praise 41 legacy 55averages 58, placing it at22,885 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.

Whose apex this is

▲ Macaulay Culkin

In these careers — elevation for this film

Macaulay Culkin19,763 ftJoe Pesci19,441 ftDaniel Stern18,957 ftCatherine O'Hara18,436 ftTim Curry18,317 ftJohn Heard18,138 ftBrenda Fricker18,102 ftKate Hudson17,661 ftKieran Culkin17,658 ftAlly Sheedy17,657 ftFrank Oz17,655 ft