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#11,903 All-time worldwide
#218 1996 releases

Movie profile

Citizen Ruth

1996 · 104 min · Miramax

Drama Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $285,112
Budget $3.0M
Gross minus budget -$2.7M
ROI 0.10x

Domestic gross

$142,556

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$142,556

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$25,660

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Citizen Ruth 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 #11,903 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1996 releases #218 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1996. Studio / company #75 Miramax of 77 titles Position inside the mapped Miramax movie set. Primary genre #5,342 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.

#11,900 Matador 1986 · $286,126 #11,901 Cold Steel 1987 · $285,885 #11,902 Return of Bastard Swordsman 1984 · $285,437 #11,904 Dil Kya Kare 1999 · $284,856 #11,905 The Doom Generation 1995 · $284,785 #11,906 Roman Bacanales 1982 · $283,179

Quick answer

How did Citizen Ruth (1996) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Citizen Ruth (1996) earned a reported $285.1K worldwide against a reported $3.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$2.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.10x. In this database it currently ranks #11,903 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #218 among 1996 releases.

Worldwide gross
$285,112
Budget
$3,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$2,714,888
ROI
0.10x
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

"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 21, 1996
Production
Miramax, Independent Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyMiramax Release year chart1996 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1996, Citizen Ruth is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Comedy title from Miramax. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $285,112, reported production budget is $3.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$2.7M, ROI is 0.10x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,903 all-time in the current chart set and #218 among 1996 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.