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#7,630 All-time worldwide
#90 1991 releases

Movie profile

A Rage in Harlem

1991 · 115 min · Palace Pictures

Crime Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.4M
Budget $8.0M
Gross minus budget $2.4M
ROI 1.30x

Domestic gross

$4.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where A Rage in Harlem 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 #7,630 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1991 releases #90 Release-year chart position of 231 titles Ranked against movies released in 1991. Studio / company #3 Palace Pictures of 5 titles Position inside the mapped Palace Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,190 Crime of 1,921 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 Rage in Harlem (1991) perform at the box office?

High confidence

A Rage in Harlem (1991) earned a reported $10.4M worldwide against a reported $8.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $2.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.30x. In this database it currently ranks #7,630 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #90 among 1991 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,400,000
Budget
$8,000,000
Gross minus budget
$2,400,000
ROI
1.30x
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 beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 3, 1991
Production
Palace Pictures, Miramax, New Line Cinema
Countries
GB, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyPalace Pictures Release year chart1991 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1991, A Rage in Harlem is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Comedy title from Palace Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.4M, reported production budget is $8.0M, gross-minus-budget is $2.4M, ROI is 1.30x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,630 all-time in the current chart set and #90 among 1991 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.