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Dangerous Minds

1995 · directed by John N. Smith · 99 min
22,190 feet · Prominence
1,625th of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Dangerous Minds’ With Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Van Lathan

How this film scores

Draw68

$180m worldwide in 1995 — $389m in today's money.

As released$180mIn 2026 money$389mRank836 of 8,589In 199518 of 156

How Draw works

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

Praise41

Critics 41, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 41.

Critics41 → 21Awards0 → 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.

Legacy45

Judged directly: Gangsta's Paradise; shorthand for white-savior trope.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb6.5 from 60kWikipedia19k views a monthAge31 years

Scored beside it · 1,079 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 68 praise 41 legacy 45averages 51, which places it at22,190 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

Michelle Pfeiffer22,194 ft