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Big Daddy

1999 · directed by Dennis Dugan · 93 min
21,524 feet · Prominence
1,865th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Big Daddy’ With Bill Simmons, Joe House, and Sean Fennessey

How this film scores

Draw70

$235m worldwide in 1999 — $465m in today's money.

As released$235mIn 2026 money$465mRank670 of 8,589In 199916 of 170

How Draw works

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

Praise41

Critics 41, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 41.

Critics41 → 20Awards0 → 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: Sandler era staple, nostalgic only.

Verdict35 of 100IMDb6.5 from 251kWikipedia32k views a monthAge27 years

Scored beside it · 1,565 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 70 praise 41 legacy 35averages 49, which places it at21,524 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

Adam Sandler

In these careers — elevation for this film

Adam Sandler22,366 ft