Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
Scored from 152 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Deuce Bigalow, a meek Los Angeles fish-tank cleaner, accidentally trashes the home of a high-end male escort he's house-sitting for. To pay for the repairs, he reluctantly takes up the gigolo trade himself, guided by a fast-talking pimp called T.J. Along the way he goes on a string of odd dates with unconventional women and unexpectedly falls for one of his clients.
Released in 1999, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo is a comedy and romance film. Inside comedy it is classed as Goofy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 5,186 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 152 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 159 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus.
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 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 152.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
