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Happy Gilmore

1996 · directed by Dennis Dugan · 92 min
23,076 feet · Prominence
1,367th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw53

Lifetime worldwide gross $41m, re-releases included; about $87m in 2026 money.

Rank3,210 of 11,051In 199654 of 191

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

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics49 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.

Legacy62

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

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7 from 306kWikipedia65k views a monthAge30 years

Scored beside it · 541 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 53 praise 49 legacy 62averages 55, placing it at23,076 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 Sandler19,768 ftCarl Weathers18,202 ftBen Stiller17,657 ftRichard Kiel17,631 ft