Is Tommy Boy actually good?

Tommy Boy sits in the 73.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 73.6% of them.

How does Tommy Boy compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Tommy Boy lands in the 73.8% 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 Tommy Boy's score based on?

165 calibrated reviewers stand behind Tommy Boy's score.

1995

global pct

73.6

Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s

Tommy Boy

Name: Tommy Boy
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Released: 1995

Scored from 165 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

73.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

73.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

92.1%

AI-adjusted percentile

165 calibrated reviewers

Summary

After barely graduating college, good-hearted but bumbling Tommy Callahan inherits his late father's auto parts factory in Sandusky, Ohio. To save the company and the town's jobs from a corporate buyout, he hits the road on a desperate sales trip with his father's uptight assistant Richard, learning to believe in himself along the way.

Released in 1995, Tommy Boy is an adventure and comedy film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 9,067 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 165 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 171 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.