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#7,315 All-time worldwide
#129 1999 releases

Movie profile

Boys Don't Cry

1999 · 118 min · Fox Searchlight Pictures

Crime Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $11.5M
Budget $2.0M
Gross minus budget $9.5M
ROI 5.77x

Domestic gross

$5.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Boys Don't Cry 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 #7,315 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #129 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Studio / company #33 Fox Searchlight Pictures of 45 titles Position inside the mapped Fox Searchlight Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,142 Crime of 1,921 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 Boys Don't Cry (1999) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Boys Don't Cry (1999) earned a reported $11.5M worldwide against a reported $2.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $9.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 5.77x. In this database it currently ranks #7,315 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #129 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$11,540,607
Budget
$2,000,000
Gross minus budget
$9,540,607
ROI
5.77x
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

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 2, 1999
Production
Fox Searchlight Pictures, IFC Productions, Killer Films
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyFox Searchlight Pictures Release year chart1999 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, Boys Don't Cry is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Drama title from Fox Searchlight Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $11.5M, reported production budget is $2.0M, gross-minus-budget is $9.5M, ROI is 5.77x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,315 all-time in the current chart set and #129 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.