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Pump Up the Volume

1990 · directed by Allan Moyle · 102 min · R
23,170 feet · Prominence
1,304th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw45

Lifetime worldwide gross $12m, re-releases included; about $29m in 2026 money.

Rank5,307 of 11,051In 199081 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.

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.

Legacy48

Judged directly: Cult 90s teen, talk hard.

Verdict48 of 100IMDb7.2 from 32kWikipedia10k views a monthAge36 years

Scored beside it · 1,211 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 45 praise 79 legacy 48averages 57, placing it at23,170 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

▲ Christian Slater

In these careers — elevation for this film

Christian Slater19,857 ftSamantha Mathis18,592 ftSeth Green17,639 ftEllen Greene17,638 ft