Is The Purple Rose of Cairo actually good?

The Purple Rose of Cairo sits in the 87.7% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 87.7% of them.

How does The Purple Rose of Cairo compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Purple Rose of Cairo lands in the 86.7% 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 Purple Rose of Cairo's score based on?

149 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Purple Rose of Cairo's score.

1985

global pct

87.7

Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Name: The Purple Rose of Cairo
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Released: 1985

Scored from 149 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

87.7%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

86.7%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

97.7%

AI-adjusted percentile

149 calibrated reviewers

Summary

During the Great Depression, a downtrodden New Jersey waitress finds escape at the movies, repeatedly watching a romantic adventure called 'The Purple Rose of Cairo.' To her astonishment, the dashing on-screen explorer steps off the screen and into her life, throwing both the film's remaining characters and the real world into chaos as the actor who played him arrives to set things right.

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, fantasy and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.

Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 149 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 151 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 149
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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