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#8,885 All-time worldwide
#109 1988 releases

Movie profile

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon

1988 · 93 min · Universal Pictures

Drama Romance Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $6.3M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$3.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$563,765

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon 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 #8,885 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1988 releases #109 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1988. Studio / company #317 Universal Pictures of 377 titles Position inside the mapped Universal Pictures movie set. Primary genre #3,783 Drama of 5,859 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 Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988) perform at the box office?

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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $6.3M. In this database it currently ranks #8,885 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #109 among 1988 releases.

Worldwide gross
$6,264,058
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he comes to understand his parents and eventually bonds with his father.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Feb 26, 1988
Production
Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox
Countries
US

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1988, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Romance, Comedy title from Universal Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $6.3M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,885 all-time in the current chart set and #109 among 1988 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.