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To Live and Die in L.A.

1985
23,171 feet · Prominence
1,187th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘To Live and Die in L.A.’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

How this film scores

Draw49

$17m worldwide in 1985 — $53m in today's money.

As released$17mIn 2026 money$53mRank3,689 of 8,589In 198546 of 109

How Draw works

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

Praise85

Critics 85, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 85.

Critics85 → 43Awards0 → 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. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so the awards half halves it — which penalises it for the Academy's rules rather than its quality.

Legacy40

Judged directly: Friedkin cult; famed reverse-freeway chase.

Verdict40 of 100IMDb7.3 from 46kWikipedia27k views a monthAge41 years

Scored beside it · 1,269 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 49 praise 85 legacy 40averages 58, which places it at23,171 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

Willem Dafoe21,919 ft