Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s
Over the Edge
Scored from 69 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
New Granada is a planned community of tract houses and vacant lots where the only thing built for teenagers is a rec center the adults keep threatening to close. Fourteen-year-old Carl Willat drifts through it with his friend Richie White, cutting school, getting high, and firing a stolen pistol at road signs, while Sergeant Doberman leans on the kids and their parents worry mostly about scaring off investors in the development. When one confrontation with the police goes badly wrong, the standoff between the town's children and its adults stops being containable. Jonathan Kaplan's teen drama, loosely based on events in a California suburb, was Matt Dillon's first film.
Released in 1979, Over the Edge is a crime and drama film. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is PG. It runs 1h 35m.
Only 69 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 73 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 2,405 1970s films, not against the whole corpus. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 195 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 Over the Edge 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 · 1970s (2,406 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 69.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
