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Animal House

1978 · directed by John Landis · 109 min
26,420 feet · Prominence
178th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw74

Lifetime worldwide gross $141m, re-releases included; about $714m in 2026 money.

Rank352 of 11,051In 19784 of 58

How Draw works

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

Praise84

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics84 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.

Legacy75

Judged directly: Invented the college comedy, TOGA endures.

Verdict75 of 100IMDb7.4 from 136kWikipedia38k views a monthAge48 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 197 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 74 praise 84 legacy 75averages 78, placing it at26,420 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

▲ John Vernon▲ Stephen Furst

In these careers — elevation for this film

John Belushi20,705 ftTom Hulce18,771 ftJohn Vernon18,677 ftKaren Allen18,442 ftStephen Furst18,177 ftSunny Johnson17,686 ftDonald Sutherland17,673 ftKevin Bacon17,672 ftPeter Riegert17,651 ftVerna Bloom17,644 ftBruce McGill17,643 ft