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#3,464 All-time worldwide
#103 2009 releases

Movie profile

Crazy Heart

2009 · 112 min · Fox Searchlight Pictures

Drama Music Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $47.4M
Budget $7.0M
Gross minus budget $40.4M
ROI 6.77x

Domestic gross

$23.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$23.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Crazy Heart 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 #3,464 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #103 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #11 Fox Searchlight Pictures of 45 titles Position inside the mapped Fox Searchlight Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,248 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.

#3,461 The Magic Tuche 2018 · $47.4M #3,462 Nightcrawler 2014 · $47.4M #3,463 Hard to Kill 1990 · $47.4M #3,465 Almost Famous 2000 · $47.4M #3,466 Heartbreaker 2010 · $47.4M #3,467 Her 2013 · $47.4M

Quick answer

How did Crazy Heart (2009) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Crazy Heart (2009) earned a reported $47.4M worldwide against a reported $7.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $40.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 6.77x. In this database it currently ranks #3,464 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #103 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$47,405,566
Budget
$7,000,000
Gross minus budget
$40,405,566
ROI
6.77x
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

When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 16, 2009
Production
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Informant Media, Butcher's Run Films
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyFox Searchlight Pictures Release year chart2009 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartMusic Genre chartRomance

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, Crazy Heart is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Music, Romance title from Fox Searchlight Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $47.4M, reported production budget is $7.0M, gross-minus-budget is $40.4M, ROI is 6.77x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,464 all-time in the current chart set and #103 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.