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The Edge

1997
21,155 feet · Prominence
1,951st of 15,261 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw53

$43m worldwide in 1997 — $89m in today's money.

As released$43mIn 2026 money$89mRank2,895 of 8,589In 199758 of 182

How Draw works

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

Praise65

Critics 65, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 65.

Critics65 → 32Awards0 → 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.

Legacy25

Judged directly: Mamet survival thriller, largely forgotten.

Verdict25 of 100IMDb6.9 from 83kWikipedia17k views a monthAge29 years

Scored beside it · 2,275 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 53 praise 65 legacy 25averages 48, which places it at21,155 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

Anthony Hopkins22,241 ft