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The Gods Must Be Crazy

1980 · directed by Jamie Uys · 109 min · PG
24,227 feet · Prominence
776th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw76

Lifetime worldwide gross $200m, re-releases included; about $801m in 2026 money.

Rank293 of 11,051In 19803 of 84

How Draw works

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

Praise80

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics80 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.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Global phenomenon, Coke-bottle premise remembered.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb7.3 from 62kWikipedia23k views a monthAge46 years

Scored beside it · 1,139 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 76 praise 80 legacy 48averages 68, placing it at24,227 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

▲ N!xau▲ Sandra Prinsloo▲ Louw Verwey▲ Marius Weyers

In these careers — elevation for this film

N!xau19,225 ftMarius Weyers18,263 ftSandra Prinsloo18,231 ftLouw Verwey17,907 ft