Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Dear Frankie
Scored from 115 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Nine-year-old Frankie, who is deaf, is uprooted once more by his mother Lizzie and grandmother Nell, this time to a flat in Greenock, a shipping town on the Firth of Clyde. Frankie writes regularly to a father he believes is a sailor aboard the HMS Accra; the replies, full of foreign ports and stamps for his collection, are secretly written by Lizzie, who keeps the family moving to stay out of reach of the boy's real father. When Frankie discovers the Accra is genuinely due to dock nearby, Lizzie pays a stranger to spend one day standing in as his dad. Directed by Shona Auerbach and starring Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, and Gerard Butler, it is a Scottish drama.
Dear Frankie (2004) is a film IMDb files under the drama and romance genres. It runs 1h 45m. It is rated PG. It was made in the United Kingdom.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 115 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 129 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,567 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Dear Frankie lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 115.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
