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Risky Business

1983 · directed by Paul Brickman · 98 min
25,757 feet · Prominence
297th of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw61

$64m worldwide in 1983 — $211m in today's money.

As released$64mIn 2026 money$211mRank1,587 of 8,589In 198315 of 90

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

Critics 84, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 84.

Critics84 → 42Awards0 → 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.

Legacy72

Judged directly: Cruise underwear dance endlessly parodied.

Verdict72 of 100IMDb6.8 from 105kWikipedia27k views a monthAge43 years

On the listsCriterion Collectionevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 246 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 61 praise 84 legacy 72averages 72, which places it at25,757 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

Tom Cruise22,739 ft