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You've Got Mail

1998 · directed by Nora Ephron · 119 min
23,875 feet · Prominence
847th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables'You’ve Got Mail' With Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins

How this film scores

Draw71

$251m worldwide in 1998 — $508m in today's money.

As released$251mIn 2026 money$508mRank587 of 8,589In 199812 of 165

How Draw works

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

Praise64

Critics 64, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 64.

Critics64 → 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.

Legacy50

Judged directly: The internet romcom, still widely referenced.

Verdict50 of 100IMDb6.7 from 244kWikipedia0k views a monthAge28 years

Scored beside it · 819 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 71 praise 64 legacy 50averages 62, which places it at23,875 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 Hanks22,285 ft