Is Rudy actually good?

Rudy sits in the 88.1% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 88.1% of them.

How does Rudy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Rudy lands in the 89.7% 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 Rudy's score based on?

143 calibrated reviewers stand behind Rudy's score.

1993

global pct

88.1

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

Rudy

Name: Rudy
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Released: 1993

Scored from 143 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

88.1%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

97.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

143 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Daniel 'Rudy' Ruettiger, an undersized working-class kid from Illinois, refuses to give up on his dream of playing football for Notre Dame despite lacking the grades, money, and physical gifts. After grinding through Holy Cross junior college and earning a spot on Notre Dame's scout team as a walk-on, he fights to dress for just one game before he graduates.

Released in 1993, Rudy is a biography, drama and sport film.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 4,558 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 143 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 152 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.