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#3,513 All-time worldwide
#54 1995 releases

Movie profile

Dolores Claiborne

1995 · 132 min · Castle Rock Entertainment

Crime Drama Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $46.4M
Budget $13.0M
Gross minus budget $33.4M
ROI 3.57x

Domestic gross

$23.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$23.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Dolores Claiborne 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 #3,513 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1995 releases #54 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1995. Studio / company #19 Castle Rock Entertainment of 48 titles Position inside the mapped Castle Rock Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #537 Crime of 1,921 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.

#3,510 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 · $46.5M #3,511 Get Rich or Die Tryin' 2005 · $46.4M #3,512 Malice 1993 · $46.4M #3,515 Dhoom 2 2006 · $46.4M #3,516 Blink Twice 2024 · $46.4M #3,517 The Son of Bigfoot 2017 · $46.4M

Quick answer

How did Dolores Claiborne (1995) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Dolores Claiborne (1995) earned a reported $46.4M worldwide against a reported $13.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $33.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.57x. In this database it currently ranks #3,513 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #54 among 1995 releases.

Worldwide gross
$46,400,000
Budget
$13,000,000
Gross minus budget
$33,400,000
ROI
3.57x
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

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Mar 24, 1995
Production
Castle Rock Entertainment
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyCastle Rock Entertainment Release year chart1995 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartDrama Genre chartMystery

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1995, Dolores Claiborne is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Drama, Mystery title from Castle Rock Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $46.4M, reported production budget is $13.0M, gross-minus-budget is $33.4M, ROI is 3.57x. For comparison, it currently sits #3,513 all-time in the current chart set and #54 among 1995 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.