Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s
The Cider House Rules
Scored from 271 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Homer Wells, an orphan raised at a Maine orphanage by Dr. Wilbur Larch, leaves the only home he has ever known to see the world. He takes work at an apple orchard alongside a crew of migrant pickers, where he confronts questions about love, family, and the moral codes people choose to follow.
The Cider House Rules (1999) is a film IMDb files under the drama and romance genres.
4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 271 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 285 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
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 The Cider House Rules 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 · 1990s (4,082 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 271.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
