Philadelphia , IQ Score 166/200
Philadelphia has an IQ Score of 166/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
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IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Jonathan Demme's 1993 film about a gay lawyer (Tom Hanks, Best Actor Oscar) dying of AIDS and the personal-injury lawyer (Denzel Washington) representing him after he's fired for being HIV-positive. The structural commitment to letting the early-1990s AIDS-cultural cognitive register be rendered at Hollywood mainstream scale, and the Bruce Springsteen 'Streets of Philadelphia' canonical needle-drop, is among the most-influential 1990s socially-engaged Hollywood films.
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