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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) poster
1982
global pct
78.7

Film · 1982 · Films · 1980s

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Scored from 120 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

78.7%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
76.2%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
93.7%
AI-adjusted percentile
120 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A hard-boiled Los Angeles private eye is hired by a beautiful woman to investigate her scientist father's mysterious death, only to find himself tangled in a sprawling conspiracy involving a shadowy list of friends and enemies. The noir spoof intercuts new footage of the detective with clips from classic 1940s films, letting him share scenes with Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, and other Hollywood legends.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, crime and mystery genres. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

120 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 122 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.

Is Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers
120

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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