Box office snapshot
Financial performance
Reference figures based on available reported data.Domestic gross
$16.8M
Estimated from worldwide grossInternational gross
$25.2M
Estimated from worldwide grossOpening weekend
$4.7M
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Where Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ranks
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How did Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) perform at the box office?
High confidenceDirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) earned a reported $42.0M worldwide against a reported $6.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $35.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 6.46x. In this database it currently ranks #3,732 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #33 among 1988 releases.
- Worldwide gross
- $42,000,000
- Budget
- $6,500,000
- Gross minus budget
- $35,500,000
- ROI
- 6.46x
Synopsis
Story
Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.
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Why this movie matters
Released in 1988, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime title from Orion Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $42.0M, reported production budget is $6.5M, gross-minus-budget is $35.5M, ROI is 6.46x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,732 all-time in the current chart set and #33 among 1988 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.
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