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Thank You for Smoking

2005 · directed by Jason Reitman · 92 min
22,692 feet · Prominence
1,681st of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw47

Lifetime worldwide gross $25m, re-releases included; about $42m in 2026 money.

Rank4,605 of 11,051In 2005129 of 266

How Draw works

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

Praise78

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics78 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.

Legacy42

Judged directly: Quotable satire, moderately remembered, no canon.

Verdict42 of 100IMDb7.5 from 235kWikipedia14k views a monthAge21 years

Scored beside it · 1,633 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 47 praise 78 legacy 42averages 56, placing it at22,692 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

▲ Aaron Eckhart

In these careers — elevation for this film

Aaron Eckhart19,834 ftKatie Holmes18,292 ftWilliam H. Macy18,254 ftMaria Bello18,199 ftAdam Brody18,090 ftRob Lowe18,083 ftSam Elliott18,052 ftRobert Duvall17,654 ftJ.K. Simmons17,647 ftTodd Louiso17,629 ft