Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s
The Miracle Worker
Scored from 100 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Arthur Penn's film of William Gibson's play opens in 1880s Tuscumbia, Alabama, where the Kellers' daughter Helen (Patty Duke), left deaf and blind by an infant illness, has grown into an ungoverned child her family placate rather than teach. They send to the Perkins Institution in Boston for a teacher and receive Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), half-blind herself and raised in an almshouse. Annie demands that Helen be separated from her indulgent parents so she can impose order and spell words into the girl's hand, believing Helen can grasp that the letters stand for things. The conflict runs on two fronts: a physical battle of wills with Helen, and an argument with Captain Keller over obedience, pity and time.
The Miracle Worker is a 1962 biography and drama film. It runs 1h 46m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 100 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 105 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1960s films — 1,929 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 The Miracle Worker 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 · 1960s (1,929 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 100.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
