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Children's Island poster
#10,382 All-time worldwide
#97 1980 releases

Movie profile

Children's Island

1980 · 104 min · Svenska Filminstitutet

Drama Family Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.1M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$907,522

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$272,257

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Children's Island 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 #10,382 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1980 releases #97 Release-year chart position of 126 titles Ranked against movies released in 1980. Studio / company #1 Svenska Filminstitutet of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Svenska Filminstitutet movie set. Primary genre #4,530 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.

#10,379 Mallrats 1995 · $2.1M #10,380 Videodrome 1983 · $2.1M #10,381 The Nutcracker 1993 · $2.1M #10,383 State Property 2002 · $2.1M #10,384 Faithful 1996 · $2.1M #10,385 A Month by the Lake 1995 · $2.1M

Quick answer

How did Children's Island (1980) perform at the box office?

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Children's Island (1980) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $2.1M. In this database it currently ranks #10,382 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #97 among 1980 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,110,516
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
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

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 25, 1980
Production
Svenska Filminstitutet, Treklövern, Award Films International
Countries
SE

Related indexes

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Studio / production companySvenska Filminstitutet Release year chart1980 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartFamily Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1980, Children's Island is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Family, Romance title from Svenska Filminstitutet. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.1M. For comparison, it currently sits #10,382 all-time in the current chart set and #97 among 1980 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.