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Happy Gilmore

1996 · directed by Dennis Dugan · 92 min
23,006 feet · Prominence
1,252nd of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Happy Gilmore’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and The Safdie Brothers

How this film scores

Draw53

$41m worldwide in 1996 — $87m in today's money.

As released$41mIn 2026 money$87mRank2,928 of 8,589In 199650 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.

Praise49

Critics 49, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 49.

Critics49 → 24Awards0 → 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.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Sandler's most quoted, revived by sequel.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7 from 306kWikipedia65k views a monthAge30 years

Scored beside it · 473 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 49 legacy 62averages 55, which places it at23,006 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

Adam Sandler22,103 ft