Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Secondhand Lions
Scored from 217 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In rural Texas in the early 1960s, shy adolescent Walter is dropped off at a ramshackle farm by his unreliable mother Mae, who tells him to find out where his reclusive great-uncles, Hub and Garth McCann, have hidden the fortune they supposedly brought back from abroad. The old men shoot at travelling salesmen for sport and have no use for a boy, but Garth starts feeding Walter installments of Hub's youth in the French Foreign Legion, an Arabian princess and a vengeful sheik. Walter cannot tell how much of it is true, and grasping relatives keep circling the rumoured money while the uncles spend it on things like a retired circus lioness. Tim McCanlies wrote and directed this family comedy-drama.
Secondhand Lions (2003) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and family genres. Its certificate is PG. It runs 1h 51m. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 217 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 236 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 2,945 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 Secondhand Lions 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 · 2000s (7,847 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 217.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
