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Forgetting Sarah Marshall

2008 · directed by Nicholas Stoller · 111 min · R
22,955 feet · Prominence
1,436th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw59

Lifetime worldwide gross $105m, re-releases included; about $161m in 2026 money.

Rank2,049 of 11,051In 200862 of 300

How Draw works

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

Praise76

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics76 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.

Legacy42

Judged directly: Apatow-era touchstone, quoted.

Verdict42 of 100IMDb7.1 from 317kWikipedia27k views a monthAge18 years

Scored beside it · 1,603 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 59 praise 76 legacy 42averages 59, placing it at22,955 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

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