Film · 2010 · Films · 2010s
Love & Other Drugs
Two parallel scores from 258 z-qualifying reviewers and 263 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2010s (13,059 peers).
Z-normalized corrects for reviewer bias (every reviewer re-centered onto their personal scale). Raw average uses simple mean across the broader pool including stddev=0 reviewers.
Where this title sits
Z-normalized percentile · 13,059 peers in Films · 2010s
| Mean reviewer z-score | -0.158 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.21 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 6.20 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | -0.261 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 258 / 263 |
Summary
In late-1990s Pittsburgh, charismatic pharmaceutical sales rep Jamie Randall climbs the ranks pushing Pfizer drugs like Viagra to doctors. He begins a no-strings affair with Maggie Murdock, a free-spirited artist living with early-onset Parkinson's disease, but their casual arrangement deepens into something neither expected as both confront what commitment means in the face of illness.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
258 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = -0.158. DB2 raw mean = 6.20.
90% CI-floor = -0.261. Thin samples penalized.
Global 36.6 / cohort 42.8. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 2010s
