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#6,350 All-time worldwide
#59 1986 releases

Movie profile

Armed and Dangerous

1986 · 88 min · Columbia Pictures

Action Comedy Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.9M
Budget $12.0M
Gross minus budget $3.9M
ROI 1.33x

Domestic gross

$6.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Armed and Dangerous 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 #6,350 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #59 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Studio / company #197 Columbia Pictures of 272 titles Position inside the mapped Columbia Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,868 Action of 2,939 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.

#6,347 Caveman 1981 · $16.0M #6,348 Gintama: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya 2013 · $16.0M #6,349 Melancholia 2011 · $15.9M #6,351 Next of Kin 1989 · $15.9M #6,352 Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday 1993 · $15.9M #6,353 Hero at Large 1980 · $15.9M

Quick answer

How did Armed and Dangerous (1986) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Armed and Dangerous (1986) earned a reported $15.9M worldwide against a reported $12.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $3.9M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.33x. In this database it currently ranks #6,350 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #59 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,945,534
Budget
$12,000,000
Gross minus budget
$3,945,534
ROI
1.33x
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

After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 15, 1986
Production
Columbia Pictures, Delphi V, Frostbacks
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyColumbia Pictures Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Armed and Dangerous is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Comedy, Crime title from Columbia Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.9M, reported production budget is $12.0M, gross-minus-budget is $3.9M, ROI is 1.33x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,350 all-time in the current chart set and #59 among 1986 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.