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#4,994 All-time worldwide
#89 1998 releases

Movie profile

Can't Hardly Wait

1998 · 100 min · Columbia Pictures

Comedy Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $25.6M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget $15.6M
ROI 2.56x

Domestic gross

$10.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$15.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Can't Hardly Wait 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 #4,994 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1998 releases #89 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1998. Studio / company #172 Columbia Pictures of 272 titles Position inside the mapped Columbia Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,941 Comedy of 4,840 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 Can't Hardly Wait (1998) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Can't Hardly Wait (1998) earned a reported $25.6M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $15.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.56x. In this database it currently ranks #4,994 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #89 among 1998 releases.

Worldwide gross
$25,605,015
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
$15,605,015
ROI
2.56x
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

It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jun 12, 1998
Production
Columbia Pictures, Tall Trees Productions
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyColumbia Pictures Release year chart1998 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartRomance

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1998, Can't Hardly Wait is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Romance title from Columbia Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $25.6M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is $15.6M, ROI is 2.56x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,994 all-time in the current chart set and #89 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.