Is Say Anything actually good?

Say Anything sits in the 77.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 77.2% of them.

How does Say Anything compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Say Anything lands in the 74.8% 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 Say Anything's score based on?

196 calibrated reviewers stand behind Say Anything's score.

1989

global pct

77.2

Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s

Say Anything

Name: Say Anything
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1989

Scored from 196 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

77.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

74.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

94.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

196 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Lloyd Dobler, an underachieving but earnest high school graduate, sets his sights on Diane Court, the brilliant valedictorian heading off on a prestigious scholarship. Their unlikely summer romance is complicated by Diane's protective father, whose own troubles begin to surface and threaten the relationship.

Say Anything is a 1989 comedy, drama and romance film. Its comedy subtype is Romcom.

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: 4,365 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 196 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 208 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.