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Cruel Intentions

1999 · directed by Roger Kumble · 97 min
22,652 feet · Prominence
1,445th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Cruel Intentions’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins

How this film scores

Draw58

$76m worldwide in 1999 — $151m in today's money.

As released$76mIn 2026 money$151mRank2,040 of 8,589In 199949 of 170

How Draw works

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

Praise56

Critics 56, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 56.

Critics56 → 28Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Teen cult, the kiss, soundtrack.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb6.8 from 219kWikipedia85k views a monthAge27 years

Scored beside it · 928 of 3,430 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 58 praise 56 legacy 48averages 54, which places it at22,652 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

Reese Witherspoon21,789 ft