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The Cable Guy

1996 · directed by Ben Stiller · 96 min
22,172 feet · Prominence
1,634th of 15,261 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw62

$103m worldwide in 1996 — $216m in today's money.

As released$103mIn 2026 money$216mRank1,539 of 8,589In 199629 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.

Praise56

Critics 56, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 56.

Critics56 → 28Awards0 → 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.

Legacy38

Judged directly: Flop dark comedy, small reappraisal cult.

Verdict38 of 100IMDb6.1 from 189kWikipedia28k views a monthAge30 years

Scored beside it · 1,407 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 62 praise 56 legacy 38averages 52, which places it at22,172 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

Jim Carrey22,611 ft