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#8,171 All-time worldwide
#141 1998 releases

Movie profile

Apt Pupil

1998 · 107 min · Bad Hat Harry Productions

Drama Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $8.9M
Budget $14.0M
Gross minus budget -$5.1M
ROI 0.63x

Domestic gross

$4.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$797,687

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Apt Pupil 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 #8,171 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #141 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Studio / company #4 Bad Hat Harry Productions of 4 titles Position inside the mapped Bad Hat Harry Productions movie set. Primary genre #3,447 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 Apt Pupil (1998) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Apt Pupil (1998) earned a reported $8.9M worldwide against a reported $14.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$5.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.63x. In this database it currently ranks #8,171 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #141 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$8,863,193
Budget
$14,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$5,136,807
ROI
0.63x
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

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 23, 1998
Production
Bad Hat Harry Productions, Canal+ Droits Audiovisuels, Phoenix Pictures
Countries
FR, US

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Studio / production companyBad Hat Harry Productions Release year chart1998 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, Apt Pupil is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Thriller title from Bad Hat Harry Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $8.9M, reported production budget is $14.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$5.1M, ROI is 0.63x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,171 all-time in the current chart set and #141 among 1998 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.