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#5,950 All-time worldwide
#61 1989 releases

Movie profile

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989 · 104 min · Orion Pictures

Comedy Drama Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $18.3M
Budget $19.0M
Gross minus budget -$745,298
ROI 0.96x

Domestic gross

$9.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Crimes and Misdemeanors 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 #5,950 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #61 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Studio / company #30 Orion Pictures of 80 titles Position inside the mapped Orion Pictures movie set. Primary genre #2,325 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 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) earned a reported $18.3M worldwide against a reported $19.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$745.3K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.96x. In this database it currently ranks #5,950 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #61 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$18,254,702
Budget
$19,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$745,298
ROI
0.96x
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 renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 13, 1989
Production
Orion Pictures, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
Countries
US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, Crimes and Misdemeanors is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama, Crime title from Orion Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $18.3M, reported production budget is $19.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$745,298, ROI is 0.96x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,950 all-time in the current chart set and #61 among 1989 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.