Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Son of the Bride
Scored from 36 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Rafael Belvedere is 42, divorced, and running the Buenos Aires Italian restaurant his parents founded, working through cigarettes and mobile calls while dodging his young daughter Vicky, his girlfriend Naty, and the nursing home where his mother Norma is losing herself to Alzheimer's. Investors want to buy the place out from under him, and his father Nino, who visits Norma every day, has decided to finally give her the church wedding the two of them never had. A heart attack forces Rafael to stop, and his father's plan hands him a job he cannot delegate to anyone. Juan José Campanella's Argentine comedy-drama stars Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio and Norma Aleandro.
Son of the Bride (2001) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres. The runtime is 123 minutes. It was made in Argentina. It plays in Spanish. Its certificate is R.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 215 of whom clear the calibration test. 7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 36 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 41 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
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 Son of the Bride 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 36.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
