Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s
Pretty in Pink
Scored from 165 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Andie, a working-class high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, catches the eye of wealthy classmate Blane, sparking a romance that strains under social pressure from his snobbish friends and her devoted misfit pal Duckie, who harbors his own feelings for her. As prom approaches, Andie must decide whether to risk heartbreak by trusting Blane or stay loyal to the world she knows.
Pretty in Pink (1986) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Its comedy subtype is Romcom.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 7,225 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 165 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 168 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.
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 Pretty in Pink 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 · 1980s (3,141 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 165.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
