Film · 2009 · Films · 2000s
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Scored from 423 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Parker Wilson, a college music professor in a small Rhode Island town, finds an abandoned Akita puppy at the local train station and, unable to trace an owner, takes it home over his wife Cate's objections. He names the dog Hachi, and the two fall into a daily ritual: Hachi walks him to the station each morning and is waiting on the platform when the evening train comes in. Lasse Hallström's family drama is an American retelling of the true story of the Japanese dog Hachikō and of the 1987 film Hachikō Monogatari, and it turns on the collision between a dog's fixed sense of routine and the unpredictability of a human life.
Released in 2009, Hachi: A Dog's Tale is a drama and family film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG. Lasse Hallström directed it. Richard Gere, Joan Allen and Jason Alexander head the billed cast. It runs 1h 33m.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 423 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 463 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 Hachi: A Dog's Tale 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 423.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
