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#5,136 All-time worldwide
#25 1978 releases

Movie profile

An Unmarried Woman

1978 · 124 min · 20th Century Fox

Drama Romance Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $24.0M
Budget $2.5M
Gross minus budget $21.5M
ROI 9.54x

Domestic gross

$12.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where An Unmarried Woman ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #5,136 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1978 releases #25 Release-year chart position of 89 titles Ranked against movies released in 1978. Studio / company #86 20th Century Fox of 209 titles Position inside the mapped 20th Century Fox movie set. Primary genre #2,032 Drama of 6,006 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 An Unmarried Woman (1978) perform at the box office?

High confidence

An Unmarried Woman (1978) earned a reported $24.0M worldwide against a reported $2.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $21.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 9.54x. In this database it currently ranks #5,136 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #25 among 1978 releases.

Worldwide gross
$24,000,000
Budget
$2,515,000
Gross minus budget
$21,485,000
ROI
9.54x
Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 24, 1978
Production
20th Century Fox
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production company20th Century Fox Release year chart1978 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance Genre chartComedy

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1978, An Unmarried Woman is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Romance, Comedy title from 20th Century Fox. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $24.0M, reported production budget is $2.5M, gross-minus-budget is $21.5M, ROI is 9.54x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,136 all-time in the current chart set and #25 among 1978 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.