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The Sure Thing

1985
22,527 feet · Prominence
1,504th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘The Sure Thing’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

How this film scores

Draw50

$18m worldwide in 1985 — $56m in today's money.

As released$18mIn 2026 money$56mRank3,600 of 8,589In 198545 of 109

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

Critics 79, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 79.

Critics79 → 39Awards0 → 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.

Legacy35

Judged directly: Reiner road romance, modest enduring affection.

Verdict35 of 100IMDb7 from 23kWikipedia20k views a monthAge41 years

Scored beside it · 1,528 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 50 praise 79 legacy 35averages 55, which places it at22,527 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

No scored career runs through this film yet. The people-side engine currently covers 108careers, and this film’s cast sits outside them.