Is Housekeeping actually good?

Housekeeping sits in the 84.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 84.5% of them.

How does Housekeeping compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Housekeeping lands in the 82.9% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Housekeeping's score based on?

18 calibrated reviewers stand behind Housekeeping's score.

1987

global pct

84.5

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

Housekeeping

Name: Housekeeping
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1987

Scored from 18 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

84.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

82.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

81.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

18 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Housekeeping (1987) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 40 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. Only 18 of its IMDb reviewers are calibrated, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 19 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.