Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s
Lawn Dogs
Scored from 67 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Devon Stockard is a precocious ten-year-old recovering from heart surgery whose parents have just moved into Camelot Gardens, a manicured gated community in Kentucky. Bored by their social climbing and the neighbourhood's conformity, she attaches herself to Trent Burns, a young man from outside the walls who mows the residents' lawns and lives alone in a riverside trailer. Their friendship, fed by Devon's retellings of the Russian folk tale of Baba Yaga, draws suspicion and then menace from the adults around them. John Duigan directs a drama that folds fairy-tale imagery into a portrait of American class division.
Lawn Dogs (1997) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre. It runs 1h 41m and carries an R certificate. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom.
Only 67 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 70 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 201 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Lawn Dogs 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 67.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
