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The Running Man

1987 · directed by Paul Michael Glaser · 101 min
22,589 feet · Prominence
1,475th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw55

$38m worldwide in 1987 — $111m in today's money.

As released$38mIn 2026 money$111mRank2,530 of 8,589In 198732 of 130

How Draw works

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

Praise52

Critics 52, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 52.

Critics52 → 26Awards0 → 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.

Legacy52

Judged directly: Prescient satire, Schwarzenegger one-liners.

Verdict52 of 100IMDb6.6 from 190kWikipedia116k views a monthAge39 years

Scored beside it · 772 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 55 praise 52 legacy 52averages 53, which places it at22,589 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

Arnold Schwarzenegger22,718 ft