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#8,315 All-time worldwide
#133 1997 releases

Movie profile

A Simple Wish

1997 · 89 min · The Bubble Factory

Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.3M
Budget $28.0M
Gross minus budget -$19.7M
ROI 0.30x

Domestic gross

$3.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where A Simple Wish 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 #8,315 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1997 releases #133 Release-year chart position of 246 titles Ranked against movies released in 1997. Studio / company #2 The Bubble Factory of 3 titles Position inside the mapped The Bubble Factory movie set. Primary genre #1,692 Adventure of 2,138 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 Simple Wish (1997) perform at the box office?

High confidence

A Simple Wish (1997) earned a reported $8.3M worldwide against a reported $28.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$19.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.30x. In this database it currently ranks #8,315 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #133 among 1997 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,345,056
Budget
$28,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$19,654,944
ROI
0.30x
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

Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic wand is broken and the fairies convention is threatened by evil witches Claudia and Boots.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 11, 1997
Production
The Bubble Factory, Universal Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyThe Bubble Factory Release year chart1997 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartComedy Genre chartFamily Genre chartFantasy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1997, A Simple Wish is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Comedy, Family title from The Bubble Factory. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.3M, reported production budget is $28.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$19.7M, ROI is 0.30x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,315 all-time in the current chart set and #133 among 1997 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.