Is Mommie Dearest actually good?

Mommie Dearest sits in the 37.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 37.2% of them.

How does Mommie Dearest compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Mommie Dearest lands in the 34.5% 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 Mommie Dearest's score based on?

160 calibrated reviewers stand behind Mommie Dearest's score.

1981

global pct

37.2

Film · 1981 · Films · 1980s

Mommie Dearest

Name: Mommie Dearest
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: 1981

Scored from 160 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

37.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

34.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

22.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

160 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Based on Christina Crawford's memoir, this drama chronicles the turbulent relationship between movie star Joan Crawford and her adopted daughter Christina. Behind the glamour of Hollywood, Joan's obsession with perfection, career anxieties, and volatile temper turn private life into a nightmare for her children, spanning decades from Christina's childhood through adulthood.

Released in 1981, Mommie Dearest is a biography and drama film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,090 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 160 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 162 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is Mommie Dearest (1981) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 160
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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