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#8,493 All-time worldwide
#98 1989 releases

Movie profile

Enemies, a Love Story

1989 · 119 min · Morgan Creek Entertainment

Comedy Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $7.8M
Budget $9.5M
Gross minus budget -$1.7M
ROI 0.82x

Domestic gross

$3.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$697,911

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Enemies, a Love Story 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 #8,493 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #98 Release-year chart position of 218 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Studio / company #26 Morgan Creek Entertainment of 34 titles Position inside the mapped Morgan Creek Entertainment movie set. Primary genre #3,308 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 Enemies, a Love Story (1989) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Enemies, a Love Story (1989) earned a reported $7.8M worldwide against a reported $9.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$1.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.82x. In this database it currently ranks #8,493 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #98 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross
$7,754,571
Budget
$9,500,000
Gross minus budget
-$1,745,429
ROI
0.82x
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 ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 13, 1989
Production
Morgan Creek Entertainment
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, Enemies, a Love Story is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama, Romance title from Morgan Creek Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $7.8M, reported production budget is $9.5M, gross-minus-budget is -$1.7M, ROI is 0.82x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,493 all-time in the current chart set and #98 among 1989 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.