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#7,641 All-time worldwide
#63 1983 releases

Movie profile

Doctor Detroit

1983 · 89 min · Black Rhino Productions

Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.4M
Budget $8.0M
Gross minus budget $2.4M
ROI 1.30x

Domestic gross

$4.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Doctor Detroit ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #7,641 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1983 releases #63 Release-year chart position of 150 titles Ranked against movies released in 1983. Primary genre #2,972 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 Doctor Detroit (1983) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Doctor Detroit (1983) earned a reported $10.4M worldwide against a reported $8.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $2.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.30x. In this database it currently ranks #7,641 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #63 among 1983 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,375,893
Budget
$8,000,000
Gross minus budget
$2,375,893
ROI
1.30x
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 shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
May 6, 1983
Production
Black Rhino Productions, Brillstein Company, Universal Pictures
Countries
LB, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyBlack Rhino Productions Release year chart1983 box office Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1983, Doctor Detroit is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Black Rhino Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.4M, reported production budget is $8.0M, gross-minus-budget is $2.4M, ROI is 1.30x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,641 all-time in the current chart set and #63 among 1983 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.