RankquantRQ
Waiting for Guffman (1996) poster
1996
global pct
80.9

Film · 1996 · Films · 1990s

Waiting for Guffman

Scored from 136 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

80.9%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
81.3%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
95.1%
AI-adjusted percentile
136 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the small town of Blaine, Missouri, eccentric theater director Corky St. Clair stages an amateur musical to celebrate the town's 150th anniversary. When word spreads that a Broadway critic named Mostly Guffman may attend the premiere, the cast of local oddballs becomes convinced their big break is at hand.

Waiting for Guffman is a 1996 comedy film.

4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2,142 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 136 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 144 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is Waiting for Guffman (1996) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers
136

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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