Is The Cable Guy actually good?

The Cable Guy sits in the 47.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 47.6% of them.

How does The Cable Guy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Cable Guy lands in the 45.5% 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 The Cable Guy's score based on?

319 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Cable Guy's score.

1996

global pct

47.6

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

The Cable Guy

Name: The Cable Guy
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1996

Scored from 319 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

47.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

45.5%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

42.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

319 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After a recent breakup, Steven hires a cable installer named Chip to hook up his apartment. Chip latches onto Steven as his new best friend, but his desperate need for companionship quickly curdles into obsessive, increasingly unhinged behavior that threatens to destroy Steven's life.

Released in 1996, The Cable Guy is a comedy, drama and thriller film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 319 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 330 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them.

Is The Cable Guy (1996) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 319
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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