Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
Sweet Home Alabama
Scored from 263 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A rising New York fashion designer engaged to the mayor's son must return to her small Alabama hometown to finalize a divorce from the childhood husband she never legally split from. As she reconnects with her roots, family, and old friends, she's forced to confront who she really is and what she truly wants.
Sweet Home Alabama (2002) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 16,192 of whom clear the calibration test. The calibrated figure is built from 263 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 278 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Sweet Home Alabama 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 263.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
