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#6,378 All-time worldwide
#196 2009 releases

Movie profile

Away We Go

2009 · 98 min · Focus Features

Drama Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $15.8M
Budget $17.0M
Gross minus budget -$1.2M
ROI 0.93x

Domestic gross

$7.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$7.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Away We Go 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 #6,378 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #196 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #24 Focus Features of 34 titles Position inside the mapped Focus Features movie set. Primary genre #2,613 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 Away We Go (2009) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Away We Go (2009) earned a reported $15.8M worldwide against a reported $17.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$1.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.93x. In this database it currently ranks #6,378 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #196 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$15,779,455
Budget
$17,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$1,220,545
ROI
0.93x
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

Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 5, 2009
Production
Focus Features, Big Beach, Neal Street Productions
Countries
GB, US

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, Away We Go is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy, Romance title from Focus Features. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $15.8M, reported production budget is $17.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$1.2M, ROI is 0.93x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,378 all-time in the current chart set and #196 among 2009 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.