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#7,742 All-time worldwide
#195 2004 releases

Movie profile

A Day Without a Mexican

2004 · 98 min · Televisa

Comedy Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.1M
Budget $1.5M
Gross minus budget $8.6M
ROI 6.70x

Domestic gross

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where A Day Without a Mexican ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #7,742 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2004 releases #195 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2004. Studio / company #1 Televisa of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Televisa movie set. Primary genre #3,016 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did A Day Without a Mexican (2004) perform at the box office?

High confidence

A Day Without a Mexican (2004) earned a reported $10.1M worldwide against a reported $1.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $8.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 6.70x. In this database it currently ranks #7,742 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #195 among 2004 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,057,021
Budget
$1,500,000
Gross minus budget
$8,557,021
ROI
6.70x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

When a mysterious fog surrounds the boundaries of California, there is a communication breakdown and all the Mexicans disappear, affecting the economy and the state stops working missing the Mexican workers and dwellers.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 14, 2004
Production
Televisa, Eye On The Ball Films, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
Countries
MX, ES, US

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Studio / production companyTelevisa Release year chart2004 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartMystery

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2004, A Day Without a Mexican is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Mystery title from Televisa. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.1M, reported production budget is $1.5M, gross-minus-budget is $8.6M, ROI is 6.70x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,742 all-time in the current chart set and #195 among 2004 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.