Film · 1994 · Films · 1990s
The Madness of King George
Scored from 62 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
In 1788, twenty-eight years into his reign and still smarting from the loss of the American colonies, George III (Nigel Hawthorne) begins to talk without stopping, abuse his court and make advances to the Queen's lady-in-waiting. His physicians bleed and blister him to no effect, so the King is handed to Dr Willis (Ian Holm), a clergyman who runs a madhouse and applies the restraining chair and hard discipline. As the illness drags on, the Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett) and the Whigs press for a Regency Bill that would give him his father's power, while Pitt's government and Queen Charlotte (Helen Mirren) fight to keep the King on the throne. Nicholas Hytner directed Alan Bennett's adaptation of his own play.
The Madness of King George is a 1994 biography, comedy and drama film. It runs 1h 47m. Its country of origin is listed as the United Kingdom. Its certificate is PG-13.
The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. Only 62 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 63 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 The Madness of King George 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 62.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
