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#5,918 All-time worldwide
#106 1999 releases

Movie profile

An Ideal Husband

1999 · 97 min · Fragile Films

Drama Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $18.5M
Budget $14.0M
Gross minus budget $4.5M
ROI 1.32x

Domestic gross

$9.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where An Ideal Husband 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 #5,918 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #106 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Studio / company #2 Fragile Films of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Fragile Films movie set. Primary genre #2,394 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did An Ideal Husband (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

An Ideal Husband (1999) earned a reported $18.5M worldwide against a reported $14.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $4.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.32x. In this database it currently ranks #5,918 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #106 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$18,500,000
Budget
$14,000,000
Gross minus budget
$4,500,000
ROI
1.32x
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

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 14, 1999
Production
Fragile Films, Icon Productions, Pathé
Countries
FR, GB, US

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, An Ideal Husband is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy, Romance title from Fragile Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $18.5M, reported production budget is $14.0M, gross-minus-budget is $4.5M, ROI is 1.32x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,918 all-time in the current chart set and #106 among 1999 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.