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#6,807 All-time worldwide
#108 1994 releases

Movie profile

Crooklyn

1994 · 114 min · 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks

Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $13.6M
Budget $14.0M
Gross minus budget -$360,000
ROI 0.97x

Domestic gross

$6.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Crooklyn 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 #6,807 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1994 releases #108 Release-year chart position of 238 titles Ranked against movies released in 1994. Studio / company #8 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks of 12 titles Position inside the mapped 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks movie set. Primary genre #2,645 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.

#6,804 Haunted Castle 2001 · $13.7M #6,805 Shadow Boxing 3. The Final Round 2011 · $13.6M #6,806 The Gunman 2015 · $13.6M #6,808 Bugs! 2003 · $13.6M #6,809 Sing Street 2016 · $13.6M #6,810 Sydney White 2007 · $13.6M

Quick answer

How did Crooklyn (1994) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Crooklyn (1994) earned a reported $13.6M worldwide against a reported $14.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$360.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.97x. In this database it currently ranks #6,807 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #108 among 1994 releases.

Worldwide gross
$13,640,000
Budget
$14,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$360,000
ROI
0.97x
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

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 13, 1994
Production
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures, Child Hood Productions
Countries
US

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Studio / production company40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks Release year chart1994 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1994, Crooklyn is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama title from 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $13.6M, reported production budget is $14.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$360,000, ROI is 0.97x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,807 all-time in the current chart set and #108 among 1994 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.