Is Overboard actually good?

Overboard sits in the 81.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 81.5% of them.

How does Overboard compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Overboard lands in the 79.4% 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 Overboard's score based on?

160 calibrated reviewers stand behind Overboard's score.

1987

global pct

81.5

Film · 1987 · Films · 1980s

Overboard

Name: Overboard
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1987

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

81.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

79.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

95.8%

AI-adjusted percentile

160 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A spoiled, wealthy heiress hires a small-town carpenter to build custom closets aboard her yacht, then refuses to pay him and humiliates him. When she falls overboard and washes ashore with amnesia, the carpenter sees his chance for revenge and claims her as his wife, putting her to work raising his four unruly sons in his rundown house.

Released in 1987, Overboard is a comedy and romance film. Its comedy subtype is Romcom.

160 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 161 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,861 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.